Code signing to help with Windows virus false positives

[Ethan Watson via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 20:43:59 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> I'm afraid to see people overreacting in front of a minor and 
> temporary problem.

This is not the first time this is a problem.

Our scanner at Remedy regularly used to block code sent to and 
from Walter at the email level. Sometimes things just wouldn't be 
received on either side.

Our scanner also used to pick up the DMD that we shipped to our 
work environments until we added an exception for it.

I just put a clean install of Visual Studio and Visual D on this 
laptop in case some people want to see some D stuff after my talk 
today. Windows Defender blocked my download of DMD.

D code seems to be sufficiently different that virus scanners get 
confused. Both Windows Defender and F-Secure complained about it 
being the same trojan in fact.

This cannot be a problem if we expect people to get in to the 
language. If the first stop download is picked up as a virus? 
This is unbelievably bad.