avast! Whitelisting

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/13/17 5:58 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 at 17:10:11 UTC, Klean White wrote:
>> Maybe you should upload your stuff for whitelisting in order to avoid 
>> unneccessary blocks / false positives:
>> https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB229#idt_100
> 
> The DMC has traditionally often been wrongly classified. The best way to 
> proceed is to upload the binary yourself to the virus scanner in your 
> usage as (1) there are way too many (>70) that the D Dev team could keep 
> track of and (2) the vendors of Antivirus programs trust their users 
> (and multiple submissions) much more than one from the vendor.
> @ all: there have been dozens of these posts in the past. Please, please 
> try to contribute a tiny bit yourself and submit the binary for 
> whitelisting! It takes less time than writing a post here...

It might be a good idea to have a sticky post somewhere on the web site 
titled "Is your Anti-Virus flagging DMD? Read this: (link to 
whitelisting instructions on wiki)."

-Steve