Retrospect Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 It'd be funny if Tursi and the guys at VICE did this , and then started a price-war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 21 minutes ago, Retrospect said: It'd be funny if Tursi and the guys at VICE did this , and then started a price-war. To relive the 80s, yeah? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenorton Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Ok, Just tried with Spectrum's "security suite" (provided by f_secure), and it didn't like something about cartpack.dll. My Windows defender, however, isn't letting out a peep. Interestingly, I'm using JAWS, which is probably the most famous commercial screen reader (for the blind/visually impaired). This so-called "security suite" says something relating to JAWS is also harmful. Now, JAWS is routinely used/downloaded by many thousands of computer users who have a need for it. I am VERY certain they have crossed all the T'sand dotted all the I's as far as application signing are concerned, and, they are still getting a false possitive from F_Secure. However, if JAWS were harmful to computer users, there'd be an uproar in the AT community. So, I don't trust absolutely everything coming from my virus scanner. Now, off to Freedom Scientific to see about the false possitive with one of their programs. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Almost every antivirus vendor has a method of reporting suspected false-positives, either via the program GUI or a website. I recommend people like us familiarize ourselves with the process as this is going to get worse before it gets better, especially for unsigned software. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 hour ago, OLD CS1 said: Almost every antivirus vendor has a method of reporting suspected false-positives, either via the program GUI or a website. I recommend people like us familiarize ourselves with the process as this is going to get worse before it gets better, especially for unsigned software. I've done this with malwarebytes many times.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 Cartpack is the funniest one, because there's almost no PC executable code in there. It's a bunch of structures, ROM data, copyright debug, and four 1-line functions to report the ROMs to the emulator. Oddly, using OutputDebugString is now considered suspicious activity. I had no idea many viruses make a point of reporting every step they take. (Maybe the vendors assume that such things are removed from release builds, but running DebugView will quickly show you they aren't ). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 @Tursi Microsoft silently launched code signing for developers with a free preview until June 2024. Only catch is you need 3 years of verified tax records as business and after the free preview it is 9.99 per month 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 It looks interesting, but it looks like you need to have an Azure account as well just to access the service...? Still, looks like it might work out cheaper than any other service... to start at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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