VisualD.dll flagged during VisualD 0.45.0 installation as Trojan by McAfee

[Jolly James via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 13:31:37 UTC, Ozan (O/N/S) wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 12:00:39 UTC, ShadoLight wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For other users of McAfee AV software: Note that, during the 
>> installation of VisualD 0.45.0, the VisualD.dll is detected as 
>> GenericRXBS-NK!9A26B67896F trojan by my McAfee AV (Enterprise 
>> v8.8 in my case).
>>
> Hi
> Are you sure about, that it is a only VisualD problem?
> I got a similar message from McAfee using the current DMD with 
> Dub.
>
> Regards Ozan

This is a general problem and will possibly happen with all AV 
software. And many of them that use heuristics will flag any 
port-opening D program (e.g. DCD) as "Generic.XYZ".

Please remember, "Generic" means, your AV tool has no idea what 
it actually is, but it looks very suspicious.