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Aug 18, 2020 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
Gather round, folks. I'm going to write a @Foone-style thread about a rather interesting debugging adventure I had during the last days.
So there was this new release of the #ao486 PC clone core for the #MiSTerFPGA emulation system the other day. It was a highly anticipated major release with a 4x increase in CPU performance.
I wrote a thing or two about it here:
Why antivirus is a cur(s)e that's worse than the disease, exhibit #47110815:
A freshly-compiled .exe of a totally innocuous "Hello World"-type program is already detected as malware by 2 out of 67 engines at VirusTotal.
Time to quit software and become a farmer, I guess 🤬
Just run the same .exe through UPX (the by far most popular and least exotic executable compressor in existence), and you're up to 10/70. In other words, 14% of all antivirus engines consider a UPX-packed "Hello World" program dangerous!
Just run the same .exe through UPX (the by far most popular and least exotic executable compressor in existence), and you're up to 10/70. In other words, 14% of all antivirus engines consider a UPX-packed "Hello World" program dangerous! 