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sr #108032: a.exe erronously detected by Avast! antivirus as a Win32 Trojan generator

Submitter:  Vincent Belaïche <vincentb1>
Submitted:  Sun 22 Apr 2012 05:51:56 AM UTC
   
 
Priority:  * 5 - Unprioritized Severity:  3 - Normal
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Operating System:  None
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Mon 23 Apr 2012 03:42:23 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the report.  As you point out, this is not a bug in autoconf, but in Avast, and it's not worth making autoconf try to work around overactive virus checkers.

Eric Blake <ericb>
Group administrator
Sun 22 Apr 2012 05:51:56 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I tried to compile mpeg4ip-1.5.0.1 on mingw32, and Avast barked at a.exe being some virus.

Well, a.exe is just a

int main(void){ return 0; }

program.

I did all sorts of tampering with Avast to deactivate it, but it was still barking.

After some time I modified the configure script so that the a.exe source code be:

int
main ()
{

  int i = 3;
  float c = b +i;
  i = (int)c;
  return i;
}

with this, the a.exe was no longer detected as a virus, and I could progress a bit more in the configure script.

OK, this is not really a bug of Autoconf, but still I think that it is good for you to know.

Vincent Belaïche <vincentb1>

 

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