Re: Win32forth.exe deleted by McAfee VirusScan Enterprise

On Apr 6, 6:03 pm, Albert van der Horst <alb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <dea8f096-9029-415e-9d34-7c59b6c50...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Brad  <hwfw...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

Here's something I didn't see coming. After a company upgrade to
Windows 7, I needed to re-install Win32forth version 6.12. McAfee
automatically deleted the following files:

Win32forth.exe   detected as: W32/Autorun.worm!js  Virus
Setup.exe   Artemis!C957BA89FE49  Trojan

I had to manually copy them from another machine. Fortunately, nothing
was found after manually initiating a scan.

In the Dutch Forth Chapter we are investigating Forths (choosing
a successor for the ancient 16 bit chforth.)
We too observed an objection from a virus detector during installation.
It suffices to temporarily disable it during installation,
a feature that is present in most virus scanners.
With the growth of the virus databases those false positives
will occur more and more often.

That is a funny way to look at it. The AVS algorithms are not dumb.
If the developers are told of the false positives they should make
changes to prevent that. I use Sophos and when I report problems to
them they always take the reports seriously and I get a personal
reply... from a person... really! I can only assume they appreciate
the feedback.

And yes, one of those reports was about Win32Forth...

Rick
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