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Virus error
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Anoep, Satyendra
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I'm trying to run my c++ project but now after it's done building I'm getting an error that says there is a file with a virus or malware, even though I didn't create or include any new files.
I also didn't make any changes to the code. I don't really understand what's going wrong now since everything was working fine before
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C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
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David Lowndes 2,350 Reputation points MVP2024-04-22T16:10:36.1533333+00:00 Assuming you don't have some virus, I'd assume its a false positive.
What AV product are you using?
Have you ensured its fully updated?
Failing that, temporary disable your AV and see if your program then runs. -
Anoep, Satyendra 0 Reputation points
2024-04-22T17:53:33.5866667+00:00 I'm not using any AV applications in particular, except for the default Windows Defender. But I do have Security Issue Analysis installed for C++ development in VS 2022
*For some reason it does work sometimes, but later I do get the error message, preventing the program to run again
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David Lowndes 2,350 Reputation points MVP
2024-04-22T22:35:12+00:00 Try disabling Defender.
I must admit I was unaware of VS's "Security Issue Analysis", though I see it's installed for my VS installation too. I don't know what it does, and can't immediately find any definitive description of what it does either. -
Viorel 112.5K Reputation points2024-04-23T05:01:19.03+00:00 Did you try to run it without Debugger (<Ctrl+F5>)?
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