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To: Digital Man

Hi,

I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.
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To: Madgamerman

Hi,

I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.

That’s a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It’s their new system now. They don’t like foreign programs.

$ The Millionaire $

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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: Madgamerman to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:34 am

I downloaded sbbs318b from synchro.net and Windows 10 is reporting it as a Trojan Win32/Zpevdo.B Is it safe?. Never had this issue before.

It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

digital man

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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: Digital Man to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 12:01 pm

It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

Thanks.
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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: Madgamerman to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:34 am

It's safe. I had Windows reporting a bunch of false positives when I was building and testing the v3.18b setup.exe. It seems their malware scanning is not so great these days.

digital man

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I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

$ The Millionaire $

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I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

$ The Millionaire $

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Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same problem with that one too.

$ The Millionaire $

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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

That’s a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It’s their new system now. They don’t like foreign programs.

That hasn't been my experience. Also, an OS wouldn't be very popular without 3rd-party developers developing software for it..

Nightfox

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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

That hasn't been my experience. Also, an OS wouldn't be very popular without 3rd-party developers developing software for it..

Nightfox

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I read this on some websites. Again, they could be anti-Microsoft.

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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:44 pm

I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you’d never put a real virus in your bbs because it’s open source.

One time I was interviewing for a job, and the interviewer asked me what I thought of Linux. He said he trusted Microsoft & Windows because it's maintained by a relatively small team who are paid to develop it. And he thought that since Linux is open-source, that anyone could go in and put a virus or malware in it. He seemed like a Microsoft fanboy and probably didn't understand the Linux development process.. Linux is fairly widely used around the world, and my understanding is that code changes to Linux and GNU software is reviewed and controlled so that malware doesn't go into it.

Nightfox

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I was going to say false positives also due to ms virus scanner. I know you'd never put a real virus in your bbs because it's open source.

$ The Millionaire $

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Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same problem with that one too.

$ The Millionaire $

I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

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I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

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I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

$ The Millionaire $

It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that further. Thanks for reminding me!

~Mortifis

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It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that further. Thanks for reminding me!

~Mortifis

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I was talking about the DOS version. I think it went down January 5, 2006.

$ The Millionaire $

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TM > Do you remember F-Prot in the olden days? I used to get the same
TM > problem with that one too.

TM > $ The Millionaire $

MO > I still use f-prot on my *nix systems

TM > I thought F-Prot went down many years ago. Did someone revive it?

MO > It didn't "go down", however, End Of Sales date was Aug 1, 2020 and End Of Life
MO > is July 31, 2021. Perhaps F-Prot for Winbloz Sales ended a while ago but they
MO > are still providing signature updates on my *.deb. I'll have to check into that
MO > further. Thanks for reminding me!

MO > ~Mortifis

TM > I was talking about the DOS version. I think it went down January 5, 2006.

Sorry, I didn't see a specific platform version refernce. I suppose 'in the olden days' could have been a clue, but, ya, anyway ... so, in the NOW, EOL for F-Prot is 07/31/20. Ya, just like SBBS, software devs moved on from DOS a looooooong time ago and is not likely to enter anyone's mind unless they are trying to get 16bit DOS doors running under something other than DOS (ie: qemu, freeDos, etc).

~Mortifis

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Sorry, I didn't see a specific platform version refernce. I suppose 'in the olden days' could have been a clue, but, ya, anyway ... so, in the NOW, EOL for F-Prot is 07/31/20. Ya, just like SBBS, software devs moved on from DOS a looooooong time ago and is not likely to enter anyone's mind unless they are trying to get 16bit DOS doors running under something other than DOS (ie: qemu, freeDos, etc).

~Mortifis

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DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

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Re: Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Mortifis on Wed Oct 14 2020 01:49 pm

DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

I assume you mean MS-DOS 6.22? There were other companies that made DOS operating systems, not all of which had a 6.22 version.

Nightfox

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DOS 6.22 was my favourite OS. It was quick to install and had a bbs running within minutes.

I assume you mean MS-DOS 6.22? There were other companies that made DOS operati ng systems, not all of which had a 6.22 version.

Nightfox

DR-DOS had me for a moment. :P



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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

That's a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems. It's their new system now. They don't like foreign programs.

Elimanating the competition. <g>
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Re: sbbs318b.zip virus
By: The Millionaire to Madgamerman on Tue Oct 13 2020 11:42 am

Elimanating the competition. <g>

Remember MS was in court many times in the 90s over third party software.

$ The Millionaire $
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On Tue 17-Nov-2020 4:17a, Madgamerman@1:275/201.0 said to The Millionaire:

That's a first. Microsoft treats everything non-ms a virus it seems.

It's

their new system now. They don't like foreign programs.

Elimanating the competition. <g>

Thats Microsoft for you.
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