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Upgraded mono/.net 4.6 in b9 has a trojan in one of the executables

Discussion in 'Experimental Scripting Previews' started by gamedevassets-sean, Oct 28, 2016.

  1. gamedevassets-sean

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    gamedevassets-sean, Oct 28, 2016
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  2. JoshPeterson

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    Yes, I think this is a false positive. We've seen UnusedByteCodeStripper.exe be flagged by virus scanning programs in other cases, even outside of this preview build. This utility is used when managed code stripping is enabled for the Mono scripting backend. It re-writes .NET assemblies by removing code we can prove (at compile time) is not used.

    I think that virus scanners flag it sometimes because it can modify executable content.

    This utility is no different in the preview build than it is in the 5.5 beta builds though, so I would not be concerned about this.
     
    JoshPeterson, Oct 28, 2016
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