Re: [Mingw-users] antivirus detects hello world executable as trojan

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2010-06-09 13:21Z, Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> g++ hello_world.c -o hello_world.exe
> 
> That worked fine, a "hello_world.exe" file was produced.  When I went to
> execute the "hello_world.exe" file, I got a warning from the Avira
> antivirus software I have running on my computer, saying that
> hello_world.exe is the TR/Rozena.feb Trojan.

Try submitting your 'hello_world.exe' to an online scanner, e.g.:
  http://www.virustotal.com/
  http://virusscan.jotti.org/en
If dozens of other malware detectors find no problem with it,
then most likely it is clean, and you can provide the results to
Avira so they can investigate an apparent false positive--see:
  http://forum.avira.com/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=743164
for an example.

If it's not clean, then I would guess that you had this malware
already and it is infecting programs as you compile them. If
software downloaded from MinGW's sourceforge site were the
cause, then there would have been many complaints here already.