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

[Mikael Lyngvig]

Okay, I can configure MSE to ignore certain places.  Just have to do it in
advance.  Thanks for the hint.

2012/6/15 Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>

> 1. I can't tell Microsoft Security Essentials to ignore anything.  Even if
> I click Allow, it breaks the pull.
> 2. The issue is not me.  I don't download virus infested stuff and I don't
> visit dangerous sites so I rarely have a need for antivirus solutions.
>
> The issue is the newcomer Windows user whom I have to instruct to disable
> and/or remove his antivirus program if he or she wants to set up a Windows
> buildbot slave.  A bit drastic, but that's life as it is now.
>
>
> 2012/6/15 Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com>
>
>> 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
>>
>
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