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

[Michael Spencer]

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.

- Michael Spencer