Haven't wrote anything here for a long while... Just wanted to share my concerns with using PB as of lately. I've been programming in PB for about a decade now and had wrote a few big applications with it. As well as countless small plugins, utilities etc. However in the last year or two I couldn't but notice the increased number of false positives from some anti-virus packages. This has been an issue before but it was always an easy fix in a form of an odd false-positive report here and there. With the advent of blanket approach where everything without a code signature that looks mildly suspicious or with no or low reputation (number of people using the same file) is marked as infected. This is outrageous. I had to stop writing new utilities at work simply because our corporation uses Symantec Endpoint Protection and it flags pretty much every single executable and DLL created with PB unless it is a very large application and uses numerous libraries (a rare occurrence for PB apps). Their "machine learning" module just flags everything that even slightly resembles a virus (in my case, a small no GUI application most of the time). And the worst of all, it only gets more rigorous over time. At first it was a few executables, I thought fine, then after a few weeks it randomly flags even more. Today I have to exclude the whole PB installation folder, PB installation file and the built application binaries folder to be able to use it. Now, you might say, well, just exclude everything and you should be ok. Yes, however then comes the problem of distributing the software across the office. After making a slightest change in the code, I have to resubmit a false-positive report, wait (sometimes up to a day), expect that all AV instances have been updated with latest rapid release updates and then distribute the PB application. This severely affects our business, especially because we are a medium sized company and rapid prototyping and development is at the core of business. This is a major problem and a big deterrent for PB's continued existence. I personally had to revert to .NET simply because none of my software written with C# has ever been flagged by AVs. I really enjoy using PB but until we can figure out what to do with these false positives, it has no use for me, alas.
Please share your thoughts. Am I the only one suffering here? I understand that, perhaps, a lot of bedroom coders do not have this problem since they write the software for their own use and can control their AVs better than corporations and third-party users.
Best,
