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dom96 / choosenim

Tool for easily installing and managing multiple versions of the Nim programming language.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Encrypt proxyexe to avoid stupid antivirus warnings? #234

Closed dom96 closed 2 years ago

dom96 commented 3 years ago

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6950#43511

Alternatively we could get rid of the proxy exe, but that would reduce our compatibility with various Windows OS'

wiltzutm commented 3 years ago

Great suggestion!

Could you guys give some boost to the priority of this issue? At the moment I cannot use Choosenim at all on my windows 10 laptop because the antivirus is whining about false suspicion: Suspicious:W32/Malware!DeepGuard. I cannot whitelist the file because I don't have admin rights.

I know this isn't really your problem, but it would help everyone with a administered PC/laptop with sucky antivirus! :) Thank you, whatever you decide!

wiltzutm commented 3 years ago

This is not much related to the issue at hand, but I got a word out to my virus scanner provider (F-secure) and they made a fix for choosenim, which seemed to work on my initial test.

dom96 commented 2 years ago

This won't help, we're getting av warnings on Nimble and other innocent Nim exes.

wiltzutm commented 2 years ago

Omg I'm positively surprised that you guys still worked on this! :) So yeah it's not really relevant on my case anymore because I just started using my own linux laptop when doing some hobbyish things with Nim. Of course I understand that it's a pretty severe problem at large and I'm sorry to hear that the virus (scanner) vendors are black listing nim tools and code in general... Thank you for all your efforts!