Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 flags the DMD installer as malicious!

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On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 14:30:57 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> 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:
> 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?

To add to this, I've had issues with kaspersky tagging any 50 
line program I wrote as a virus, as long as it had a do{} while() 
loop in main. Very annoying. At some point people need to realize 
that anti-viruses are not simply never going to improve computer 
security.