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- Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:42 pm #675

Avast gives a warning about virus (Win32:evo-gen) for "explorer.exe" in ESP-IOT-SDK-NOVM archive.

just think for a second, there is no file named explorer.exe in ESP-IOT-SDK-NOVM.

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- Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:19 pm #676 sorry,

It must be xplorer.exe...

- Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:29 pm #677

sorry,

It must be xplorer.exe...

Virustotal finds exactly nothing. Must be a false positive.

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- Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:38 pm #678 no there is nothing, this is simply stupid avast. The section rdata is 64byte larged than definied, so bss (which is empty) will be overwritten (by nothing btw.) So avast think "this must be evil". Honestly, even 25yrs ago it would be hard (but posiible) to code evil in 64byte, today kiddies didn't even know how to code really ugly things. Best example - the "professionals" working for avast, being unable to write av that analyze code.

So once again, there is nothing. If you don't trust the xplorer.exe, do not run it, run directly eclipse.exe (which is xplorer.exe calling anyway). And remove that piece of sh*t avast, do not support such "professionals" and their business.

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter ...
I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.