One annoyance for gophers on Windows is the false positives from virus scanners when running the Go toolchain. This is mentioned in the FAQ:
* This is a common occurrence, especially on Windows machines, and is almost* * always a false positive. Commercial virus scanning programs are often* * confused by the structure of Go binaries, which they don't see as often as* * those compiled from other languages.* On my Windows 10 machine running the Symmantec scanner the situation is not the structure of the binary but the "reputation". I get separate messages running the go command or go build (one for the compiler, assembler and linker) like this: Event: Security Risk Found Security risk detected: WS.Reputation.1 File: c:\Users\xxxxxx\Desktop\go\bin\go.exe Location: Deleted or access blocked Computer: xxxxxx User: xxxxx Action taken: Leave Alone succeeded Looking up WS.Reputation.1 means: (https://www.symantec.com/security-center/writeup/2010-051308-1854-99) * WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score* * based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore* * are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on* * Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is* * based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of* * threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat* * categories.* * The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of* * millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a* * reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious* * software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and* * behavior-based detection techniques.* I reported these false positives for the go command, compiler, assembler and linker at https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ and the good news is that the go command (1.12 version) is now whitelisted. I'm waiting for the others tools to be so blessed. My guess is I'll have to report again when Go is updated. I'm wondering if others in the Go community can help by reporting as well, raising Go's "reputation". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
