Antivirus False positive in my executable

It is surprisingly common that Delphi applications are reported as (potentially) harmful by AV applications. It happened to me a while ago, using Delphi 2009, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010_March_20#Delphi.2FAVG_Issue. At SO, we also have Virus in Delphi 7 Accidentally created a virus? and many more. It might be the actual Induc Virus. But most likely, it is … Read more

Malwarebytes gives trojan warning for basic C# “Hello World!” program

The problem could be that the Backdoor.MSIL.PGen Trojan is typically called ‘hello.exe’. The name of your executable is presumably ‘hello.exe’ or ‘helloworld.exe’. Just rename your project or change the output executable to something not containing ‘hello’, and it should stop detecting it. This answer is somewhat speculative, but given the name of your project, and … Read more