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

Mikael Lyngvig mikael at lyngvig.org
Fri Jun 15 17:12:23 PDT 2012


>
> Not having an AV or swithching it off at times is not a sign of
> stupidity. The best antivirus is a mindful, knowledgeable user. And the
> antivirus doesn't really protect you in case of risky behavior.
>

I couldn't have said it better myself.  I've had three viruses in 29 years
and only one of them was my own fault. I've spent hours trying to explain
people that trusting an antivirus solution is unfortunate at best.


> Yes, if the antivirus accepts an exception for a yet nonexistent file. I
> bet most of them won't do that without fiddling with configuration
> files.
>

Ok.  You get it your way :-)  Disable antivirus, checkout, and then add the
offending file to the exclusion list.
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