Poison Ivy Detected!!!

[chris27wjoyner]

I was practicing asm with Easy Code Masm.  It compiled a trojan horse called PoisonIvy.  Thank God my virus shield detected it when I tryed to run it.

How come masm is compiling trojans, when my program is written to start, and then exit?

I was using the Easy Code Masm IDE.  I did not write a virus, but that is what got compiled.

Using Easy code or masm, you might want to virus scan with AVG.

[chris27wjoyner]

Can this post be moved to the Easy Code General Forum?

[BogdanOntanu]

Can this post be moved to the Easy Code General Forum?

Done.

I really doubt that Easy Code or MASM32 or simply MASM do compile or contain a virus. It is very unlikely but you should check carefully from what site you downloaded them. If you got them from from official sources == NO WAY.

You might already have a virus that is a file infecter and it might jump in and infect your program right after you compile it (again unlikely).

It is most likely a false positive from your anti virus program heuristics. ASM programs are no mainstream today and AV companies do not check them for false positives.

[jj2007]

Why don't you simply zip your source and post it, so that we all can assemble the trojan?

[Ramon Sala]

Hi,

All that I can say is that Easy Code is absolutely virus-free. It is certified by Softpedia and Soft32Download.

Regards,

Ramon