[Lazarus] virus in lazarus-1.2.6-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe?

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

I've found that virustotal quite often marks programs made with FPC as
having viruses. Usually one or two of the checkers there (and avast
sometimes is one of them). Messing with compiler flags (like how DLLs are
being used) tends to make them go away.

You can download an ISO with Windows directly from Microsoft, put it on a
VM like VirtualBox, install FPC, make a small program, upload it to
virustotal and have some of the antiviruses there tell you that there are
viruses on the program :-P


On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 2014-12-12 9:47 GMT+01:00 Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum at web.de>:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Avast  reports  that  several files from the win executable of Lazarus
>> are  infected with "win64 evo-gen". Is this a problem of Lazarus or of
>> Avast?
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Engelbert
>>
>
> Do you mean the IDE lazarus.exe file or an executable compiled by
> Lazarus/fpc? When did the Avast message appear? When you installed
> /upgraded Lazarus or after Avast upgraded it's virus database (which
> happens quite frequently IIRC)?
>
> I have downloaded and installed Lazarus 1.2.6, and my AVG didn't say
> anything. Still doesn't say anything now, actually.
>
> You could have a mutating virus on your system which Avast could not
> detect before but has later infected your Lazarus executable, but I guess
> this is a false positive. You could check with https://www.virustotal.com/
>
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