Antivirus programs are way too inaccurate to be used authoritatively, especially for developers. It’s not uncommon that some virus will use a well-known open source library or packaging tool, and then the antivirus decides that any binary with that same library or stub from that packaging tool must also be a virus. When your program depends on it, if you can’t turn the AV off or make an exception, you’re just fucked. Also, programming is an iterative process. Make a small change, test, repeat. Requiring that developers upload and wait for a scan from some third party for software that they compiled locally and have no intent to distribute is a giant waste of everybody’s time, especially the developer’s. It’s a huge drag on productivity for the sake of bureaucracy.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I'm quite sure the guy above is not talking about devtest environment, but production deployments...

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 6 months ago

Nah, the heuristics shit picks up a shedload of nothing as dodgy sometimes. No-one submits work in progress stuff to be accepted with the antivirus providers to bypass that. Only final versions.

Don't have a problem where I work. Likely the choice of antivirus, or they're whitelisting our development folders automatically.

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Windows defender is a Little jumpy though when it comes to self compiled software other than Visual Studio‘s

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You clearly don’t know how programming works. Or how idiotic most antivirus software is.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

When apps have code obfuscation in use, injects into dlls, and has detection for when running in a vm when it has no business doing any of these things then yes I think I can complain to the devs about it.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why is the antivirus software detecting my Cortex-M3 binaries as dangerous to an amd64 computer? Happens on Windows 7 through Windows 10, across 3 different employers.

And how do I submit my builds to Virus Total if they're getting deleted as soon as they come out of the linker?