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minus-squarePxtl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71arrow-down1·2 years agoI’ve run into antiviruses blocking code I’ve written just because I pulled in certain cryptographic libs. Literally pulling in some Microsoft cryptography libraries in c# made it think I was writing a crypto locker.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·2 years agoImo, compared to how prevalent viruses were on older versions of windows, this type paranoia seems to be working
minus-squareMcBain@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIt blocked my lousy dll injector that was made for debugging.
I’ve run into antiviruses blocking code I’ve written just because I pulled in certain cryptographic libs. Literally pulling in some Microsoft cryptography libraries in c# made it think I was writing a crypto locker.
Imo, compared to how prevalent viruses were on older versions of windows, this type paranoia seems to be working
It blocked my lousy dll injector that was made for debugging.