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Re: Virus woes.

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On 1/17/2017 2:27 PM, Albert van der Horst wrote:

> We all know virus detection is a faulty system. A larger and larger
> proportion of all programs become a false positive because the virus
> databases grow and grow.
>
> It is a lot of work to get Win32Forth accepted on the latest Windows 10.
>
> Now the simple Forth wina.exe is refused. If an archive is unpacked,
> it looks like the file is absent because Norton antivirus silently
> removes the file!
> Sending an experimental 64 bits windows wina64.exe was also
> removed from a message. Maybe gmail policed it too, because a mail
> via gmail mysteriously disappeared.
>
> Copying wina64.exe from a stick didn't help, it was removed immediately.
> Maybe build wina64.exe from source by fasm?
> Well, fasm was also killed by Norton virus.
>
> So we ended with killing Norton Virus.
>
> Groetjes Albert
>

In the last 10 years I've had one virus hit a PC which the anti-virus 
didn't stop anyway, and thousands of false positive, old Forth systems 
are sure to be deleted, I'm seriously considering having no anti-virus 
software and take my chances.

-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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Virus woes. albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-17 21:27 +0100
  Re: Virus woes. Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-17 15:45 -0600
  Re: Virus woes. Derek Simmons <dereks314@gmail.com> - 2017-01-17 15:30 -0800
  Re: Virus woes. josv@planet.nl - 2017-01-18 09:44 -0800
    Re: Virus woes. stephen@mpeforth.com - 2017-01-18 13:45 -0800
      Re: Virus woes. josv@planet.nl - 2017-01-19 03:18 -0800

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