Accidentally created a virus?

Question

I\'ve seen it happen reasonably often: I write an application in Delphi and when I compile it, the virus-scanner tells me that I\'ve created a virus and then immediately del

Answer 1

This is not that uncommon when using non-standard compilers or when doing fancy low-level stuff: I remember creating false positives when I dabbled in OS-development: AntiVir didn't like some of my flat binaries.

Recently, there's been a post about such a problem at the tinyCC mailing list regading AVG.