• Virus Warnings

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 10 07:47:20 2022
    Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender has found the following,
    probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in Visual Studio as a To Do
    manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Those are my principles – and if you don’t like them, well, I have others. (Groucho Marx)

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Sat Sep 10 11:28:02 2022
    On 10/09/2022 08:47, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender has found the following,
    probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in Visual Studio as a To Do
    manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey


    False positives? Can you turn Heuristics off, and try again?

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.


    Windows is popular. Low hanging fruit and all that ;->

    --
    Adrian C

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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Sat Sep 10 15:30:41 2022
    On 10/09/2022 08:47, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender has found the following,
    probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in Visual Studio as a To Do
    manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.


    Apart from stuff written for the WPF I think every program I have ever
    written (writted ?) has been found to be a virus.

    But if you hate Windows so much then why are you using Visual Studio ?



    --
    random signature text inserted here

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 12 09:07:36 2022
    On 10/09/2022 in message <tfi72i$1fd8l$1@dont-email.me> Abandoned_Trolley wrote:

    Apart from stuff written for the WPF I think every program I have ever >written (writted ?) has been found to be a virus.

    But if you hate Windows so much then why are you using Visual Studio ?

    I don't hate Windows, W2K was brilliant, it's W10 that seems to cause the problems.

    I use Visual Studio as it's one of the best IDEs around, designed by the
    chap who designed Borland's IDEs - they WERE the best tools around by a
    million miles.

    VS2022, which I have on a test machine, has exactly the same bugs as
    VS2008 but has many more pop up windows which seem to be trying to guess
    what I'm trying to do. It is prettier though but doesn't allow the use of
    the Fixedsys font which is the choice of many programmers.

    I decide one program I am working on would benefit from MDI windows. The
    child windows look like Win XP, a point raised on many forums and ignored
    by MSFT. One good point though, I can tile windows vertically or
    horizontally because in those days it was assumed user knew what the words meant and didn't need "side by side" or whatever the other option is
    nowadays.

    Sorry, rant over, I still have the option of Win 8.1 that would treat me
    as semi literate at least.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    I take full responsibility for what happened - that is why the person that
    was responsible went immediately.
    (Gordon Brown, April 2009)

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  • From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Mon Oct 3 21:06:09 2022
    On 12/09/2022 10:07, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    I use Visual Studio as it's one of the best IDEs around

    I haven't programmed for Windows in 10 years - forced away by
    redundancy, and don't miss it except just occasionally there's some odd
    tool that is Windows only - but I second that. I _do_ miss Visual
    Studio. To the extent that I used VS Code exclusively as an editor, even
    though it didn't support my tool chain.

    I'm surprised by your false positives. When I was writing Windows stuff
    I hardly ever had a trigger. I'm really surprised it hadn't seen Donkey
    Kong before!

    Andy

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 21:37:18 2022
    On 03/10/2022 in message <thffbi$2abg1$1@dont-email.me> Vir Campestris
    wrote:

    On 12/09/2022 10:07, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    I use Visual Studio as it's one of the best IDEs around

    I haven't programmed for Windows in 10 years - forced away by redundancy,
    and don't miss it except just occasionally there's some odd tool that is >Windows only - but I second that. I do miss Visual Studio. To the extent
    that I used VS Code exclusively as an editor, even though it didn't
    support my tool chain.

    I'm surprised by your false positives. When I was writing Windows stuff I >hardly ever had a trigger. I'm really surprised it hadn't seen Donkey Kong >before!

    Andy

    I assumed it was a recent update to defender, in the end it became
    unusable so I went back to 8.1 which has been fine.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    640k ought to be enough for anyone.
    (Bill Gates, 1981)

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  • From Max Collisions@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Thu Dec 8 17:08:26 2022
    On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 08:47:21 UTC+1, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender has found the following, probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in Visual Studio as a To Do manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Those are my principles – and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.
    (Groucho Marx)
    Are you are moron ?

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 08:38:44 2022
    On 09/12/2022 in message <9d76697c-c86f-4b17-9ec3-396eeff4c683n@googlegroups.com> Max Collisions
    wrote:

    On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 08:47:21 UTC+1, Jeff Gaines wrote: >>Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender has found the following, >>probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in Visual Studio as a To Do >>manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Those are my principles – and if you don’t like them, well, I have >>others.
    (Groucho Marx)
    Are you are moron ?

    I don't think so but, others may have different views.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Indecision is the key to flexibility

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  • From Steve Hough@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 10:54:06 2022
    Jeff Gaines presented the following explanation :
    On 09/12/2022 in message <9d76697c-c86f-4b17-9ec3-396eeff4c683n@googlegroups.com>
    Max Collisions wrote:

    On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 08:47:21
    UTC+1, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    Warning, imminent threat of death, Defender
    has found the following,
    probably planted by Putin:

    JGTaskManager - a program I have written in
    Visual Studio as a To Do
    manager.

    Speccy Installer

    PowerISO Installer

    Donkey Kong

    Iolo SystemMechanic6.exe

    ariskkey.exe

    Nirsoft Produkey

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so
    much.

    -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Those are my principles – and if you don’t
    like them, well, I have others.
    (Groucho Marx)
    Are you are moron ?

    I don't think so but, others may have different
    views.

    Nirsoft products trigger warnings on a few AV
    programs, certainly including the Bitdefender I
    use, so not just limited to W10. Why not turn off
    defender and use something else?

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Steve Hough on Fri Dec 9 11:57:41 2022
    On 09/12/2022 in message <tmv442$14p6n$1@dont-email.me> Steve Hough wrote:

    And people wonder why I hate Windows 10 so much.

    Are you are moron ?

    I don't think so but, others may have different views.

    Nirsoft products trigger warnings on a few AV programs, certainly
    including the Bitdefender I use, so not just limited to W10. Why not turn
    off defender and use something else?

    Because Defender comes with Windows so in theory should give good, if not
    the best, results. I have tied it down to just the "C:" drive now, I will
    set up a Downloads directory on C: so my downloads are checked.

    As far as Nirsoft Produkey is concerned it is a useful tool, especially as
    MSFT provides no means of checking the product key in use. I use it to
    ensure I have licences on all my PCs which I would have thought MSFT would
    be happy about.

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
    or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Fri Dec 9 12:10:02 2022
    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    As far as Nirsoft Produkey is concerned it is a useful tool, especially as MSFT
    provides no means of checking the product key in use. I use it to ensure I have
    licences on all my PCs which I would have thought MSFT would be happy about.

    Sam as other "dual-use" tools, you and I may use it for good reasons, but you must see that some other people use it to for what MS would see as bad reasons? Hence they block it.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 12:41:55 2022
    On 09/12/2022 in message <jvgmspFqshnU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    As far as Nirsoft Produkey is concerned it is a useful tool, especially as >>MSFT provides no means of checking the product key in use. I use it to >>ensure I have licences on all my PCs which I would have thought MSFT
    would be happy about.

    Sam as other "dual-use" tools, you and I may use it for good reasons, but
    you must see that some other people use it to for what MS would see as bad >reasons? Hence they block it.

    Not just them from all accounts :-(

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it

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  • From Steve Hough@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 13:00:53 2022
    Jeff Gaines explained :
    On 09/12/2022 in message
    <jvgmspFqshnU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    As far as Nirsoft Produkey is concerned it is
    a useful tool, especially as MSFT provides
    no means of checking the product key in use.
    I use it to ensure I have licences on all
    my PCs which I would have thought MSFT would
    be happy about.

    Sam as other "dual-use" tools, you and I may
    use it for good reasons, but you must see
    that some other people use it to for what MS
    would see as bad reasons? Hence they block
    it.

    Not just them from all accounts :-(

    A fair few of the Nirsoft products attract the
    attention of the AV programs. Back when I was
    fixing PCs, I often used the one that reveals the
    MS Outlook account passwords (clients never even
    knew there was one!). Again Bitdefender had a
    hissy fit, but easily fixed.

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  • From Philip Herlihy@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 12:31:28 2022
    In article <9d76697c-c86f-4b17-9ec3-396eeff4c683n@googlegroups.com>, Max Collisions wrote...

    ...
    Are you are moron ?

    This group has always been refreshing free of the sort of abuse you've just reminded us exists elsewhere. Please, not here. Or you'll simply be killfiled by everyone.

    --

    Phil, London

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