28 Jul
2018
28 Jul
'18
11:13 a.m.
On 07/27/18 17:35, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
Nor me neither - virus checkers work in mysterious ways - and have always suffered from false positives.
Back in the 90s when I was working on virus checkers, they were scanning the executable for certain revealing code patterns. Back then, those patterns were found by human analysts. My guess is that these days the patterns are found automatically, and if a virus is written using Boost libraries then the virus checkers will likely detect patterns of Boost code as suspicious.