I wanted to try out the TCC and got the Win32 Binary zip file from the website. upon decompressing it I tried to compile the "hello_win.c" source from the example directory. As soon as the compiler tried to write to the disk McAfee Popped up a dialog box and identified a Trojan named "Generic.dx." Has anyone else experience this? Dropping a virus into a compiler would be a sneaky, but brilliant, delivery mechanizism. I just want to know if this is a legit threat.
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Have you tried any other virus scanners? McAfee is notorious for false positives. What does the TCC website say about it? Have you googled it? I'd rather doubt it is actually a virus.
Byron Whitlock
2010-04-01 22:02:57
I've googled it, but can't find anything. Didn't see anything on the website.
NoMoreZealots
2010-04-01 22:11:35
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Upload your *.exe file to http://www.virustotal.com/ to see which Anti-Virus scanners react to the file. I have had similar issues with Delphi. (See discussion at Wikipedia.)
Andreas Rejbrand
2010-04-01 22:07:06