[Issue 18786] AV program detects malware in windows download of DMD

[d-bugmail at puremagic.com]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18786

--- Comment #5 from greenify <greeenify at gmail.com> ---
> I do not believe responsibility for reporting a false positive

Well, you are the one using the snake oil software (and possibly even paying
for it).

Don't forget that D is an open source project and driven by volunteers. Most D
developers use Linux, so they never run into this problems with Windows.
The only thing I can guarantee you is that it's a false positive because these
reports have been semi-regularily coming in from time to time over the recent
years. As mentioned for the AV vendors the D runtime looks still unfamiliar and
thus they often wrongly determine it to be a virus.

So tl;dr: if you don't report it to the AV vendor you use, who else is going
to?
And also AV vendors often take reports from their users much more seriously
than from open source projects (I tried to get in touch with done of them a few
years ago which horribly failed).

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