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| From | GS <gs@v.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | microsoft.public.excel.programming |
| Subject | Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? |
| Date | 2015-08-21 08:17 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mr74qj$6ag$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <b4bfa9aa-eeed-4ecf-8f58-e53e8582825f@googlegroups.com> <mr67an$42b$1@dont-email.me> |
> madscijr wrote: >> My question is, does anyone have any suggestions or know of any >> utilities or ways to narrow down what is setting off the alerts? > > > You are not the first one. > > Try renaming some of procedures/variables, moving code to different > modules... > or > switch antivirus. > > VBA code stored in bin file "looks similar" to virus. > > You can start removing module by module and see when it stops being > infected and focus in rearranging code in these modules. FWIW: I had my licensing code 'flagged' as a false positive suddenly, on a system that it ran fine on, after Avast did an update/upgrade. How I fixed it was to change wording used... encrypt, encode and decrypt, decode were changed to... convert and revert ..after which the flagging stopped! -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
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ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-17 12:27 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-17 12:29 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-17 12:35 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 13:06 +0100
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-20 11:36 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? "Peter T" <askformy@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:22 +0100
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? witek <witek7205@gazeta.pl.invalid> - 2015-08-20 22:54 -0500
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2015-08-21 08:17 -0400
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? witek <witek7205@gazeta.pl.invalid> - 2015-08-21 08:20 -0500
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2015-08-21 09:31 -0400
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-21 08:21 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? madscijr <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-21 08:07 -0700
Re: ms antivirus started finding "trojan" in workbooks, any ideas how to narrow down what module it's coming from? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2015-08-21 11:19 -0400
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