Posted June 04, 2024 by Blitz Research
Hi all,
Blitz3D-V1.113 is now available! This is basically just Blitz3D-V1.112 built with the latest MSVC compilers and tools, in the hope that it 'triggers' fewer virus checkers, although I also just remembered there's a fix for broken unicode in the debugger in there too, so freeby!
Anyway, I recently had to download V1.112 and MS Windows Defender complained about the blitzcc.exe file and decided to remove it from the zip. This didn't happen last time I tested V1.112 (which I did several times because there were some complaints) so I assume my virus checker definiton file has since been updated or something. Perhaps it's always slightly out of date, NZ is typically well behind the rest of the world in pretty much everything so it makes some sense.
Anyway, for whatever reason, V1.113 does NOT trigger Windows Defender now on my machine, so if you were having doubts about V1.112, you might want to try V1.113.
This whole false positives issue is very frustrating, because I *do* think people should be careful with software, and just assuming something's a false positive is placing an awful lot of trust in someone else. My computer doesn't *appear* to be riddled with malware, but *you* can't know that. In fact, not even *I* can know with 100% certainty that there's not 'something' on my machine hacking into exe's as soon as MSVC spits them out.
One way to *prove* (to a reasonably high degree of confidence anyway) that my exes are safe would be to get together a 'team' of helpers to build the same source code with the same tools on the same OS as me, and to compare the output files. I might try this with a single helper at some point, at the very least it seems like the only way you can prove a false positive actually *is* a false positive - unless of course we're *both* malicious actors...
Bye,
Mark