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Nasmw.exe detected as spyware

by Andreas Johansen · in Torque Game Engine · 08/29/2007 (4:57 am) · 1 replies

I was trying to do a build of the demo project here from Visual Studio 2005 and kept getting an error about the custom build step. Turns out that my Trend Micro PC-cilling Internet Security program detected the ..\bin\nasm\nasmw.exe file as a spyware program (TSPY_Agent - uk.trendmicro-europe.com/consumer/vinfo/grayware.php?vGrayware=9577) and blocked access to the file. I sorted out my issue by adding this file to the exception list in Trend Micro, but still wanted to post about it here so people are aware of the issue.

~Seigman

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08/29/2007 (6:28 am)
A number of spyware and virus programs use nasm to compile machine specific code at runtime, which is why it often shows up and is blocked.