The Sungorus 32 bit Intel build exe is packed with 'Aspack' and is totally clean. The reason I packed it is because all my 32 bit Intel compiler executables are wrongly flagged as virus/trojan by Avira/Antivir (false positive). Packing the exe makes Avira allow it with no warnings.
Please upload file to VirusTotal http://www.virustotal.com/ website if you are concerned. Here the exe will be scanned by many antivirus engines at once with results shown. Important antivirus engines to look at are Kaspersky & Nod32. If these both show file as clean you can feel confident that it is.
Jim Ablett wrote:The Sungorus 32 bit Intel build exe is packed with 'Aspack' and is totally clean. The reason I packed it is because all my 32 bit Intel compiler executables are wrongly flagged as virus/trojan by Avira/Antivir (false positive). Packing the exe makes Avira allow it with no warnings.
Please upload file to VirusTotal http://www.virustotal.com/ website if you are concerned. Here the exe will be scanned by many antivirus engines at once with results shown. Important antivirus engines to look at are Kaspersky & Nod32. If these both show file as clean you can feel confident that it is.
It looks like PikoSzachy is compressed with the WinUpack .EXE compressor. Compressed executables often cause false virus alerts, because malware can potentially be hidden inside packed .EXEs. I had similar anti-virus warnings with Feuerstein 0.4.6.
Personally, I don't see the point of packing engine executables, excepting special cases like Jim's, because of false AV alarms, and because engine .EXEs are quite small anyway.
tmokonen wrote:It looks like PikoSzachy is compressed with the WinUpack .EXE compressor. Compressed executables often cause false virus alerts, because malware can potentially be hidden inside packed .EXEs. I had similar anti-virus warnings with Feuerstein 0.4.6.
Personally, I don't see the point of packing engine executables, excepting special cases like Jim's, because of false AV alarms, and because engine .EXEs are quite small anyway.
I solved the Feuerstein problem by compiling from source code.
I have just solved the PikoSzachy problem by decompressing with PE Explorer.
PikoSzachy's file size has grown from 10 kB to 658 kB !!!
