[LLVMdev] Windows development and "virus" in LLVM test suite

[Aaron Ballman]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just filed a bug because LLVM's test suite includes a virus.  This is not
>> normally a problem on Unix (not even Linux), but as everyone know, Windows
>> is so vulnerable to vira, that Windows users have to have an antivirus
>> solution installed.  The problem is that the virus in:
>>
>>
>>  projects/test-suite/MultiSource/Applicaations/ClamAV/inputs/rtf-test/rtf1.rtf
>>
>> BREAKS the SVN pull of the LLVM test suite: Once the file is read onto disk,
>> the antivirus solution aborts the SVN pull because SVN cannot access the
>> file anymore.
>>
>> I filed a bug to have the offending file removed from LLVM, but it was
>> immediately closed with a WONTFIX flag.
>>
>> So, I am asking here, in the greater context of the LLVMdev mailing list,
>> what can be done to fix the presence of a "virus" in LLVM permanently? It is
>> not acceptable to have to ask people to uninstall their antivirus solution
>> if they want to use the test suite on Windows.
>>
>> The problem occurs with Microsoft Security Essentials (the poorest antivirus
>> solution in existence), so it is likely to occur with many antivirus
>> solutions.
>>
>> A quite from Wikipedia regarding the file:
>>
>>  A compliant virus scanner, when detecting the file, will respond in exactly
>> the same manner as if it found genuinely harmful code.
>>
>> So any compliant virus scanner will choke and panic upon encountering this
>> file!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mikael
>>
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>
> Tell your AV to ignore that folder and program. I don't have an issue
> with it on Windows.

Agreed -- and I'm using MS Security Essentials too, FWIW.  ;-)

~Aaron