Virus in QtCreator C++ IDE for Windows?
False positives are really common. Kerbal space program comes up as a virus under norton. But then norton is pretty much a virus in its own right.
The line of scanners I've used is admittedly not terrifyingly long, but any scanner that I've ever tried/used was either obnoxious or never found a virus (which might mean I've never had one in ~20 years, or it might mean my scanners just never detected one) or produced a lot of false positives, or... the combination of the three.Heh, Norton can make the most powerful computer you could possibly afford entirely unusable.
Among the scanners that I remember trying/using were Norton, F-Prot (which was actually kind of ok back in the 1990s from a usability+weight perspective), Avira, Avast, AVG, Malware Bytes, Kaspersky, and Microsoft.
Oh, and that GPL scanner... ClamAV. I used to run that one on my transparent HTTP proxy and on the POP3 proxy a decade or so ago. It also never found one thing. But then maybe I really never encountered a virus, who knows... in that case of course it would be normal that the scanner didn't find anything.
[quote name='6677' timestamp='1339693396' post='4949200']But then norton is pretty much a virus in its own right.
But then again Kaspersky (which I'm still using for some obscure reason, actually can you tell me why?) isn't much better. It used to be almost ok 5-6 years ago, but it has gotten more bloated and slower and more obnoxious with every update. What does an antivirus program need upwards of 200 MB of disk space for anyway?
But then again Kaspersky (which I'm still using for some obscure reason, actually can you tell me why?) isn't much better. It used to be almost ok 5-6 years ago, but it has gotten more bloated and slower and more obnoxious with every update. What does an antivirus program need upwards of 200 MB of disk space for anyway?
By using more HD space there will be less space left that a virus can occupy
(I'd guess most of it is used for storing virus signatures)
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