Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 flags the DMD installer as malicious!

[FeepingCreature]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 09:13:27 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 08:27:25 UTC, Rel wrote:
>> To be exact as a "HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.gen".
>> Few other AV software does the same:
>> https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/0aa364c5cb90630a5757aacc0c3c05a2273f5fdb88e14e2b80d4c19ee5b16d10/detection
>>
>> I think, we should do something about it, at very least report
>> for false-positive to Kaspersky or something.
>
> It's been reported at  
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18786
>
> For some reason it's not being taken seriously.  It's 
> embarrassing to say the least.
>
> Mike

Possibly because anything that says "pay money or we'll flag your 
binary and scare our users about it!" sounds like a scam. Also, 
nowadays virus scanners arguably cause more problems than they 
prevent - viruses have already exploited vulns in virus scanners, 
which usually run as root. And if somebody breaks into Github or 
dlang.org and replaces the binary with a backdoored one, they 
won't use a backdoor that'll be detected by common scanners 
because why would they?