Does it just mean very few D devs use Windows?

gus_massa · on Oct 31, 2018

I decided to try to solve it myself. I don't get any warning with Windows Defender (Win10). With VirusTotal I got only one report https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e02d6aff4b59b2f66ed21fb74e... by Tencent . I went to the webpage of Tencent but I can't find the correct way to report a false positive. Most of the contact page is in Chinese, but I don't speak Chinese (Hi from Argentina!) I'm in doubt if I will send the report to whoever looks more relevant, or just forget about this.

destructionator · on Oct 31, 2018

I just whitelisted the entire directory for windows defender, and I know a lot of other D devs do the same. (Without that, even my own programs I compile will have startup lag - it doesn't flag them, but it takes an extra half second to run the program, presumably scanning it first, which is infuriating for an edit/compile/test cycle.)

So for us who are already in, it is a "solved" problem. I recognize it doesn't help first timers though.

WalterBright · on Nov 1, 2018

Devs learn pretty quick to turn off AV. It's nigh impossible to run a test suite with AV on, for example, because it tries to scan/flag every executable built during the tests.

After hearing "Wolf! Wolf!" a few thousand times, one is done with AV.

smt88 · on Nov 1, 2018

Is there a reason this happens with D, but not with Rust, C++, or C#?

I think if I had to turn Windows Defender off, it'd be better to just switch to *nix (which I assume doesn't have similar false positive problems for whatever reason).