is dmd a virus?

https://www.virustotal.com report:

Cybereason --> Malicious.779f29
VBA32 --> BScope.Trojan.DShell

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 07:40:39 UTC, MGW wrote:

Yes, it's a virus... 😇

No, it's a false positive

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 07:40:39 UTC, MGW wrote:

Yeah it's a virus. I would stay far away from it...

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 07:40:39 UTC, MGW wrote:

It's our sweet virus...

There is not a single day I spend without it. 😀

SDB@79

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 07:40:39 UTC, MGW wrote:

It's obviously not

We need to contact these companies and let them know about the false positive

Someone who has an email address with the domain of the D foundation will have better chance to be taken seriously

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 09:49:28 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:

It must have happened to every last man of us the binary code you have implemented correctly is blocked by the antivirus.

SDB79

On Saturday, 22 October 2022 at 13:29:00 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:

Create a viral installer for D, that attacks C++ build tool binaries. It could also inject itself into source code of developers machines, which is probably more easily done than injecting into a binary because of OS security restrictions.