Re: Anti-Virus vendors & warnings

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:15 +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Listed quite prominently in the windows build instructions.

        Great :-)

> BitDefender/Security Essentials blocks some of the CVE test-files.

        Caolan kindly committed a fix to turn off the CVE tests on Windows by
default - I think that's prolly a good option here - we get the benefit
of testing them on Linux / Mac with fewer worried I think.

> If it needs forensics to find out what was blocked, then the
> av-solution is crap

        My thesis is that all av-solutions are deeply flawed =)

> So only way is to do as already written in the buildinstructions and
> common sense when actually looking at the AV-solutions' reports:
> Disable monitoring for the build. Not only will that not break the
> build, but also save some cycles for actually compiling stuff instead
> of checking lots of intermediate files.

        I'd love to have some easy way of detecting any AV solution. I suspect
doing something like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1331887/detect-antivirus-on-windows-using-c-sharp

        At the end of the Windows configure; and warning hard may have helped
people like Nicholas save quite a chunk of time.

        I'll file an easy-hack ;-)

        ATB,

                Michael.

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