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Hello,
New member, first post and not sure if this msg. belongs to this topic. I found PB by chance and was impressed. Downloaded Demo but every time I want to run an example my Anti-Malware finds a Trojan virus. I have other Basic compilers installed and every time I build an application everything is normal but not with PB. Any suggestions or previous experience from this community will be useful.
I am running XP Pro SP3 and have full versions of Avast and Emisisoft Anti-Malware. They both scan my PC every night and no viruses or malware are found. I scanned PB after downloading and after installing it with both programs and it was clean.
Again, the issue comes up during the compilation process and compiler stops functioning when the Anti-Malware program kicks in saying that a Trojan virus was found and quarantined.
Any incompatibility between PB and Emisisoft? or this Trojan appears only when I compile applications with PB?
Suggestions will be appreciated.
Regards
Luis.

Hi,

welcome on the forum!

Your anti malware program seems to be rather aggressive. Those "Trojans" are false positive findings. I don't know any details about that Emsisoft program, but as any other anti malware program, it should provide a possibility to define exceptions.
Tou can try to add the file "%Temp%\PureBasic_Compilation0.exe" to the exceptions. Or in the Compiler Options, go to the tab Compile/Run, and check [v] Create temporary executable in the source directory. Then add this directory to the exceptions of the Emsisoft program.

Regards, Little John

He is correct, I have had this issue several times with different anti-malware software, though never used Emsisoft. I do as Little John says, add to exceptions. Also once the problem just went away, after the security software's updates corrected the false positive.

This kind of thing is raised here from time to time - viewtopic.php?f=13&t=44371

As long as the download was from a trusted place, like the official site - don't worry!

Good point!

Regards, Little John

Thank you deeproot and Little John.
This is encouraging. I will follow the suggestions and play with the Demo for a while to get a feeling of the capabilities and performance. As far as I have read and seen, PureBasic seems very solid, has good documentation and excellent support forum.
Kind regards
Luis.