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Wow, this is fascinating, and extremely disturbing: “Nobody programs in low-level C anymore, and nobody creates new PC automation apps. TinyTask is both....so
by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 7y ago
Wow, this is fascinating, and extremely disturbing:
“Nobody programs in low-level C anymore, and nobody creates new PC automation apps. TinyTask is both....so it must be malicious, apparently?
To confirm this theory, here's a simple "Hello World" app written in C, all optimizations deactivated and zero functionality, and definitely not malware, evaluated by Google-owned VirusTotal. Yup, multiple warnings”
I can definitely see how heuristics would target programs that weren’t written on well-known frameworks, so in the goal of protecting people, we’ve effectively denied ourselves the ability to write programs on the entire substrate.
I wonder if eventually Explorer.exe and all the other windows core programs would be considered malware since hey, they’re all written in C/C++ and only nasty hackers use that, right?
- dimator 7y agothose are probably all signed binaries. what would be more telling is if other anti virus tools reported the same thing about the test binary in question.
- Gravityloss 7y agoHell, I've seen F-Secure classify Firefox on OSX as malware. I would assume such common software binaries would have their hashes whitelisted or something.