avira reporting torque exe as infected

#1 Probably caused by the lex/yacc signatures again. The thing to do is contact the guys who make Avira and point out that not every program that uses lex/yacc is a virus.

One of the many reasons I don't bother with anti-virus software. In 35 years the only virus I've ever had a problem with was one I wrote. And I'm talking 90% of my time has been on Windows/DOS machines, so it's not like I was on a less-targeted OS - it's just a matter of being careful what you expose yourself to.

#2 Anti-virus programs have a tendancy to reset some definitions and thus make new false positives for old programs they used to pass fine. Mine has a tendancy to freak out immediately after I rebuild the exe/dll simply because it's not in their master list of okay execs.

#3 Pretty much every AV program uses MD5 checksums for their definitions, this means even rebuilding stock T3D with no changes will alter the checksum of the exe and result in a different definition as far as the AV program is concerned.

This is why we opted to make it a known issue years ago as reporting the false positive would do little good for T3D users. Instead we recommend reporting the false positive to AV companies when you ship your game so that they update their definitions with your game and don't cause your player base any confusion.

#4 I have just automatically assumed that most of the AV companies share data since i tried at least 5 different ones before giving up entirely all in the space of one week suddenly *all* AV software i tried triggered on a variety of software projects i have on my system, so for now i'm av free.