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

[Michał D. <mo...@gm...>]

Hello,

I would discount Avast and Avira as real antivirus programs because they 
have reliably false flagged open source projects (FuhQuake, ezQuake, 
etc) and cracked game executables.

Best regards,

Michał Dec

W dniu 21.08.2024 o 21:13, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user pisze:
> 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... :(
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> Ralf
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