From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
To: Jonathan Protzenko <jonathan.protzenko@gmail.com>
Cc: jon@ffconsultancy.com, 'caml users' <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml installer for Windows 4.01.0
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:13:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130914071357.GA3569@notk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52340B40.9090109@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013, Jonathan Protzenko wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> It's a known issue (see « known issues » at
> http://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/); mostly, the installer
> software that I'm using gets reported as a virus by every single
> antivirus out there. I haven't found a solution to the problem, except
> for reporting false positives to the antivirus editors, which is a
> tedious an manual task.
>
> If you have any idea as to how this can be improved, I'd be really
> happy to hear it, since this problem has been bugging everyone.
I've also had some binaries reported as virus. It was incredibly funny
to try to compile something only to have the content of "ocamlopt.exe"
disappear; not the file, only the content.
IIRC the same often happens with GCC.
I don't know how an antivirus heuristic could not trigger on compilers,
bytecode interpreters or VMs, bindings to many low-level and possibly
uncommon functions, installers that will require admin rights(*) and
UPX'ed files. Or the combination of all of these.
(*) Windows' UAC will trigger automatically for any executable named
"setup.exe" or "install.exe"
--
Adrien Nader
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-14 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 11:59 [Caml-list] OCaml release 4.01.0 Damien Doligez
2013-09-12 14:28 ` Romain Bardou
2013-09-13 9:22 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-09-13 11:15 ` Pierre-Malo Deniélou
2013-09-18 23:37 ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-09-13 14:29 ` [Caml-list] OCaml installer for Windows 4.01.0 Jonathan Protzenko
2013-09-13 23:28 ` Jon Harrop
2013-09-14 7:07 ` Jonathan Protzenko
2013-09-14 7:13 ` Adrien Nader [this message]
2013-09-14 9:36 ` Török Edwin
2013-09-16 9:46 ` Stéphane Glondu
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