Avira false positive

[cerro13]

Hi,

I hope I am not opening a redundant thread.
I started to learn HLA with the basic "Hello World" from the AoA book and found Avira Antivirus to react funnily.

This is what happened:

I miss out on a semicolon in the HelloWorld code and HLA gives me the famous "namespace" error in os.hhf.
I insert the semicolon where it belongs and compile the program.
-> Avira detects "TR/Crypt XPACK.gen" in "helloworld.exe" (which is kind of hilarious).

To make sure the problem is the semicolon, I deleted the semicolon again - no problem. I insert it again -> trojan detected.
Testwise, I insert a random semicolon in os.hhf -> trojan detected.

Anybody else found Avira to react like that?

regards

[dedndave]

http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?board=52.0

[cerro13]

right, but these threads refer to MASM and not to HLA

[dedndave]

well - the problem with AV software is probably the same, whether you use HLA or MASM
you may need to add a manifest file and version control block to the resource file
attached is the same program, one with both, the other with neither
see what your AV scanner detects on those   :P