Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:02:22 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/24/2024 12:39 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
...

I did have to block a program I compile myself, generally at least
once a day, from Microsoft Defender because it flagged it:
 
6/16/23 (Severe – Quarantined):
Detected: Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.B!ml
file: C:\ow\ow\bld\wgml\win32\wgml.exe
 
It was doing this sort of thing with a /lot/ of files that hadn't been
changed or recompiled for a long long time, but I didn't bother with
blocking those. It's not presently doing this, so apparently it was
"false positive" problem. Perhaps someone thought that a particular
executable file header was unique to viruses.

>
Are you still working on Open Watcom ?  I am desperately trying to move
off it to a modern Fortran and C++ compiler setup with an integrated
IDE.  My port is not going well.

I am working on implementing wgml, a related product Open Watcom uses
to produce its documentation but which we have only in 16-bit extended
DOS and 32-bit OS/2 with no source code. So I working on the source
code we created to get it to work the way the original does so the
docs will look the same as they do now.

Michal has done some stuff on OW as such within the last few months,
so /some/ work is being done. But porting your code is probably a good
idea, a statement I regret having to make.

I am sorry about your port and hope you can find solutions.
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