Re: [Freedos-user] Infected website warning when downloading FreeDOS live CD

[Ralf Q. <fre...@gm...>]

Yeah, that's one of the things were AVast (and other AV applications 
too) has gotten really bad. Anything that even remotely looks like 
"messing" directly with the hard drive is being flagged as potentially 
malicious. Same goes for a lot of self-developed software, simply due to 
the fact that the AV scanners are trying to detect malware not based on 
actual malware code, but common library code used by standard compilers. 
This might be less of a problem these days for "modern" Windows or Linux 
code, specially when written using MS compilers (or gcc in case of 
Linux), because it is very common. But DOS based code is rather rare 
these days, less samples for the AV scanners and thus a higher rate of 
false positives... :(


Ralf