Re: Back to the Forth Virus

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On 8/06/2026 9:40 pm, clv2020 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> some years passed and now I would be interested to try Forth again.
> 
> First question: Which Forth is used nowadays for PCs under Windows11? I tried Win32Forth, ciForth and the old volksForth in an Oracle VirtualBox. (gForth, bigForth, VFX, Swiftforth are too big for me for the moment). What would you recommend?
> 
> The second question: All Forth systems I tried showed critical virus warnings from Google Chrome or Microsoft defender. Even an old volksForth vf38141.arc - no modern archive utiliy could read this format - was captured by Chrome. Win32Forth seems to be kidnapped on about each start by the Defender. I'm not very amused to turn all IT security off to use Forth. Is there a chance to solve this issue?
> 

Provided you've downloaded forth from an original source there should be no actual
virus and any offending files can be tagged as safe.  Win32Forth in particular is
often mentioned as triggering antivirus.  Most of the Win forths you mention are
sitting on my Win10 desktop.  I wouldn't worry about them being 'big' as most follow
the Forth Standard which is enough for writing some apps and reacquainting with
forth.

As for Volksforth and DOS-based forth, you'll need DOSBOX.  I prefer the official
DOSBOX after trying various forks.  Any ARCs can be handled from there.  I use the
DOS utility 'AC - The Archive Converter v3.11' which bulk converts ARC to ZIP.  If
16-bit DOS forth still interests, there is DX-Forth which tries to be modern and
is still maintained.  It's also 'small' producing turnkeys as small as 6 KB :)

HTH

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Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-08 13:40 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Jan Coombs <jan4etsept@murray-microft.co.uk> - 2026-06-08 13:16 +0100
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:23 +0000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-08 13:56 +0100
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-08 15:40 +0000
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-06-08 19:26 +0100
          Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-08 20:06 +0000
        GForth reproducible builds (was Re: Back to the Forth Virus) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-02 14:40 -0300
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-06-09 01:01 +0200
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-10 13:13 +0200
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-06-11 10:01 +0200
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-11 17:28 +0000
          Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-12 17:23 +0000
            Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-12 17:52 +0000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-12 18:22 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 13:14 +1000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 06:33 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 22:20 +1000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 15:55 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 13:08 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-07-23 19:58 +0200
                Defining words in more than one step (was: Naming issues in create-does) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 06:46 +0000
                Re: Defining words in more than one step dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-14 12:29 +1000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-12 19:59 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 10:25 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 15:30 +0000
                Re: Naming issues in create-does anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-06-13 17:30 +0000
              Re: Naming issues in create-does (was: Back to the Forth Virus) peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-06-13 20:21 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-09 12:14 +1000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-10 18:54 +0100
      Re: Back to the Forth Virus dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-11 16:32 +1000
        Re: Back to the Forth Virus "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-11 14:20 +0100
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus Stephen Pelc <stephen@vfxforth.com> - 2026-06-09 10:22 +0000
    Re: Back to the Forth Virus clv2020 <clv2020@vodafonemail.de> - 2026-06-10 15:55 +0200
  Re: Back to the Forth Virus albert@SPENARNC.XS4ALL.NL - 2026-07-24 13:35 +0200

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