Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:07:37 UTC, luminousone wrote:
> Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.

Wow that's the third thread:

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qfmxgcrxvhlqvyragfuo@forum.dlang.org

http://forum.dlang.org/post/losslyifqvphcnyhkkuh@forum.dlang.org

Does someone know how we can get windows defender not to threat dmd as a threat?

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 01:06:13 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:07:37 UTC, luminousone wrote:
>> Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.
>
> Wow that's the third thread:
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qfmxgcrxvhlqvyragfuo@forum.dlang.org
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/losslyifqvphcnyhkkuh@forum.dlang.org
>
> Does someone know how we can get windows defender not to threat dmd as a threat?

Fourth thread: http://forum.dlang.org/post/sczyojdplcgxltouixbd@forum.dlang.org

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 01:06:13 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Does someone know how we can get windows defender not to threat dmd as a threat?

Usually antiviruses have an interface to send a sample for analysis. That's supposed to help.

Or here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/portal/submission/submit.aspx

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:07:37 UTC, luminousone wrote:
> Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.

Can you give more details about the report ?

Chrome can report that a download might be malicious if it's an ".exe", a ".rpm", a ".deb", etc. , as an automatic mecanism, i.e this has nothing to do with the antivirus.

From your message I understand that you talk about the chrome warning, not an AV detection so please be accurate.

Chrome ? Signature of a particular threat ? heuristic ? What ?

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 11:24:38 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 01:06:13 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:07:37 UTC, luminousone wrote:
>>> Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.
>>
>> Wow that's the third thread:
>>
>> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qfmxgcrxvhlqvyragfuo@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/losslyifqvphcnyhkkuh@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Does someone know how we can get windows defender not to threat dmd as a threat?
>
> Fourth thread: http://forum.dlang.org/post/sczyojdplcgxltouixbd@forum.dlang.org

That's nothing...maybe 1% of the daily download. Which means that 99% of the people understand that it's not a problem since they can in last resort verify the checksum of the DL.

Also when it comes from a peer with a random pseudo, without any serious information, etc it does not look serious.

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 18:41:40 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 11:24:38 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 01:06:13 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:07:37 UTC, luminousone wrote:
>>>> Just a heads up, chrome is throwing a virus detected error in the dmd-2.071.1.exe file.
>>>
>>> Wow that's the third thread:
>>>
>>> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qfmxgcrxvhlqvyragfuo@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/losslyifqvphcnyhkkuh@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> Does someone know how we can get windows defender not to threat dmd as a threat?
>>
>> Fourth thread: http://forum.dlang.org/post/sczyojdplcgxltouixbd@forum.dlang.org
>
> That's nothing...maybe 1% of the daily download. Which means that 99% of the people understand that it's not a problem since they can in last resort verify the checksum of the DL.
>
> Also when it comes from a peer with a random pseudo, without any serious information, etc it does not look serious.

I think it's serious for the people on Windows as most newbies won't bother posting and we already have four independent reports.
For what it's worth I convinced a friend of mine to play with D a while ago and I heard back from him last week that he didn't do anything because "it was a virus", so imho for Windows user this can be a horrible "first five minutes" experience.

(Side remark: the main problem here is that I don't know a single Windows user that would run md5)