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

Some antivirus programs even flag a batch file as a virus and can't be convinced that it isn't. Quite annoying, if that file is part of a third party library and the virus warning is triggered every time TortoiseSVN checks it out. I ended up disabling the virus scanner, deleting the file and doing a commit. (Without disabling the scanner, I could not even do that :-( )