Software Orbiter add-ons and Security Software

boogabooga

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So, the latest version of Norton ran an autoscan of my system last night and flagged TransX, precessionMFD, and glideslope2 as viruses. :facepalm:

Obviously, I don't think that these are viruses. I can unquarantine them myself.

However, I wanted to start a thread dedicated to heads-ups, tips, etc. regarding internet security software and Orbiter add-ons.

Orbiter being what it is, add-ons are not being developed "professionally," and files are distributed in relatively low numbers to this small community. Therefore, orbinauts can expect trouble from anti-virus programs that use "trustworthyness" as a metric in threat assessment. (Who exactly decided that Google, Microsoft, etc. are trustworthy, I am not sure)
 

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Orbiter being what it is, add-ons are not being developed "professionally," and files are distributed in relatively low numbers to this small community. Therefore, orbinauts can expect trouble from anti-virus programs that use "trustworthyness" as a metric in threat assessment. (Who exactly decided that Google, Microsoft, etc. are trustworthy, I am not sure)

More important: Who decided that Norton is trustworthy there? I had a few suspicions of my AV software on AMSO, but the software usually simply asks for sending a copy of the suspicious files to the lab for further analysis and then stops bothering me in the future about the files.
 

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Two of my add-ons (VNCMFD and master/slave) run network servers, so (1) your firewall may complain and (2) you may have to add firewall exceptions.

Also, I have noticed that with my add-ons, animation in Orbiter becomes jerky if ESET firewall is enabled -- I think it's blocking Orbiter while inspecting the network traffic.

(NOTE to firewall developers -- a non-blocking sendto() call is supposed to be, well, non-blocking. It is supposed to return immediately, not hang just because your firewall wants to inspect my traffic. K THX BYE.)
 

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Norton security

Hi watched a video on Norton today was about .dll imported into Paint.net and it said somebodies bright idea that all modules are considered unsafe and even in paint.net they have problems.
Norton and windows 8.1 are very connected and you have to unquarantine them manually understand why but annoying
can safely say this will be the same problem with Windows 10 as well
david
 

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Huh. The last time I used a Norton product was probably 1995. I had Norton Utilities on my old DOS 5.0 machine. Norton stuff was useful in those days, but I hear not so much anymore.
 

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Norton internet security

HI yeah normally not what I would not use but it came included with my HP Pavillion
 

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Can't you smell my T levels?
But it's just a 30-days trial, isn't it?
 

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Had a lot of Norton/Synertec? stuff, and did follow it. You have to trust some company and it seems to have worked.
N.
 

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Little do you know ;)

I know enough to tell, that even developing custom drivers for the Raspberry Pi is more work than I would do in my free time. And especially developing custom drivers that are also architecturally secure and not full of easily and not so easily spotted vulnerabilities that the standard drivers no longer have.

PS: When I was way younger, I had already developed professional drivers with the Windows (2000) DDK. Its no job for stupidity.
 
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And you assume everyone else is inferior... I actually started giving you the benefit of the doubt... I no longer need too.

Cheers...:thumbup:
 

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And you assume everyone else is inferior...

No. I assume that everyone who is talking nonsense like that is inferior. That is way more qualified.

Also, I don't try to do recommendations to people, that are expecting them to REALLY understand the system and know what they are doing.

Its like recommending fixing your cars brakes yourself. If you know what you are doing and are using proper tools and parts, its safe. But if not, your life might be too short to learn how stupid you have been.
 
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Well Avira moved Orbiter_ng.exe automatically to quarantine each time I ran it... It won its one-way uninstall ticket. Other antiviruses report nothing on it.
 
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