OMC 1.9.2 for Windows is caught as a virus by AVG

[casella]

When installing the official 1.9.2 release on Windows systems using the AVG anti-virus software, omc.exe is seen as suspect (!) and quarantined or removed.

It is not clear what the actual reason is. I guess we should open an investigation with AVG technologies. I don't really think we have malicious code within omc.exe, do we?

[adrpo]

No, there is no virus in omc.exe.
I'll install 1.9.2 on my desktop which has also free AVG and do a report about it.
Hopefully they will remove it from their list.

[adrpo]

We could use their "Report false detection" page: ​http://www.avg.com/submit-sample
to send them a sample. I'll need to check a bit which dlls I need to include.

[casella]

As far as I understand (see attached screenshots), the suspected file is just omc.exe. The module which identifies it as a threat is "Identity protection". ​http://www.avg.com/eu-en/faq.num-2255

The weird thing is that it is identified as such during installation, not during usage. Maybe omc.exe is launched during installation to download some drivers or something like this?

[adrpo]

omc.exe is a very small executable which loads the huge libOpenModelicaCompiler.dll :)
We don't run omc.exe during the installation.

[adrpo]

I cannot reproduce this issue on my desktop using OpenModelica1.9.2-r25117 and AVG 2014 build 4800.
I'll try installing AVG 2015 and try again.

[adrpo]

I cannot reproduce this with AVG 2015 build 5941 at installation time.
However, if I run OMShell (as OMEdit doesn't use omc.exe anymore) and close OMShell AVG kicks in and reports the same as for you. I'll see if I can report this as a false positive to AVG.

[adrpo]

I now reported the issue to AVG and hopefully they will fix it with a new update.

[sjoelund.se]

Moved to new milestone 1.9.4

[sjoelund.se]

Any news?

[casella]

Didn't happen anymore with 1.9.3, so I'm closing the ticket. I guess Adrian's input worked out.

Thanks for the reminder.