Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/07/22/13:31:38
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Adam Lawrence wrote:
> I've tried a bunch of scanners on my home PC (NAV, PC-cillin,
> InoculateIT, and AntiViral Toolkit) which say everything is clean. I copied
> two different programs I've written using DJGPP and Allegro to an unused
> disk to test them out on a PC at work. The work PC, which uses Cheyenne,
> claims that they're infected with Cold3927 and can't clean them. Any program
> I've written that uses Allegro and DJGPP seem to trigger it.
This is a bug in your anti-virus software, please update it to the
latest version, and if that doesn't help, complain to the vendor.
There was a similar thread about Cold3927 false alarms a few months
ago, you can find it by searching the DJGPP mail archives at
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/. You will see that
eventually, the vendor admitted it was their bug.
The problem is that the DJGPP stub loader, that 2KB-long DOS code
prepended to each DJGPP program, is optimized for size, and so does
several tricks that some overzealous virus scanners take as a sign of
a virus.
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