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General Category => General Discussion & Help => Topic started by: ovortex on February 24, 2017, 07:50:57 AM
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Hello,
First of all, thanks for your great work on RetroFE!
I noticed that VirusTotal yields many alerts when scanning retrofe.exe 0.7.20:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/217c3b23d7ef1603afa92708ba2650dc879e7523167f96c85fafe92f881f71fa/analysis/1487921720/
Although these certainly are false positives I was wondering if anything could be done about that?
If I were to compile my own retrofe.exe would the result be the same?
Are there any compiler/project settings that could be changed so VirusTotal wouldn't report that many issues?
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In all honesty: I have no idea. I'm running AVG myself, and as you can see in the report: no issues. You could certainly give compiling your own executable a try to see if it makes a difference. Just keep in mind that I compile with /MT so not every user needs to install Microsoft Visual Studio; that might be of influence here.
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I ran a quick check on my latest executable: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/be4a3cf4ec671eac9572ffb39cd574ece987049d888f4f034885d532d76b84a5/analysis/
It's certainly cleaner, though I haven't really changed much (just a few cleanups in the code); my system itself hasn't changed.
As said: I'm not really sure what causes some virus checkers to find issues here; I heard the HyperSpin download has similar issues. I'm open to suggestions. :)
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Cool, your new executable apparently is already a huge improvement in this regard.
I'm a total noob when it comes to compiling stuff so I won't be of much help here.
My naive approach would include things like changing optimization levels or changing static vs dynamic linking.
I have also read about similar issues with Hyperspin and WinKawaks.
At least the latter is UPX-packed as far as I know so it's even less of a surprise virus scanners go bonkers ;)