Re: [Mingw-users] mingw creates trojans from hello world programs?

[Fredrik J. <fja...@ab...>]

On 01/31/2012 11:45 PM, Ralph Engels wrote:
>
> Many antivirus engines heuristics report false positives on programs
> it has no knowladge of. For an example try packing an executable with
> something like upx and watch how many av engines scream virus trojan
> or worse :). To my knowladge unless someone hacked the mingw.org site
> the possibility of the package being infected is very small and is
> most definatly a false positive. if in doubt upload the file in
> question to the AV devs and in most cases they will fix the wrong
> detection in an update.

I have seen a similar problem, f-secure reported various viruses and 
trojans in programs I compiled with a recent mingw gcc. For me, the 
problem disappeared again (with an f-secure update?) before I got around 
to posting to this mailing list.
I wrote a bit about this here (version numbers etc):
http://itsacleanmachine.blogspot.com/2012/01/antivirus-anger.html

I would also strongly suspect this is a false alert, particularly if
it is just a heuristic detector in the anti-virus software.

Best regards
Fredrik Jansson