Damned ! The blitzbasic3d 1.112 contains a virus ! It cannot work .
Would you correct it ?
I hd a closer look at this today, and I'm 99.97% sure it's a false positive.
I had a look at it on the Virus Total website, which does report some of the exes and dlls contained in the zip to be suspicious, but only by a small number of virus checkers (it' s a 'meta' checker) and all weird ones I'd never header of, none of the 'big name' ones.
So I went and rebuilt the entire Blitz3D packge from scratch using slightly different compiler flags to see if that made a difference and checked it again, and it did! I got a totally different results with fewer false positives (still not 0 though). So it's almost tempting to 're-release' this version as a fix, but I wont be doing that as I don't want to have to be effectively 'randomizing' compiler settings for each release to suppress virus checkers, that's just nuts for a whole lotta reasons.
I guess there's a chance that my machine has been infected by something that infects exes I build using MSVC, but short of reinstalling the whole OS (and I'm not even sure that's enough any more) I don't know if there's anything I can do about that. My machine is regularly checked by MS Windows Defender and I recently checked everything with Bitkeeper for variety which did quarantine a few things I'd never heard of (and similarly have no way of knowing if they were 'real' problems or not) but otherwise said my machine was healthy.
Hello Blitz Research, ( and Mark Silby ? ) ,
and thank you for all this research and clarifications.
My pc must also be infected.
Maybe it comes from me.
It is often a "shop-home" Trojan.
And this time it was also a Trojan horse,
with another name that I forgot to write down.
I'm going to try to download BB3D again,
Because your Basic is great, fun, and easy.
I am happy that there is still a follow-up.
I would just like a stricter and more precise debugger.
Have a good week. Good luck.
BB3D is unique!