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currently 10 virusscanner detect a autohotkey program as suspicous. i find this number to high. Please view the scanning results here: http://www.virustotal.com/nl/analisis/9 ... 1661631b53

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This is not really and AHK bug / issue. It's all to do with UPX.EXE compressing the compiled script (http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-195201.html). To prove this, do the rename-upx fix in the post just mentioned, recompile and rescan the resulting EXE. You will probably not see any hits in the scanner.

Question:
Could AHK2EXE.EXE have a "no compression" option and have it set to that by default?

You are partially correct about that, but i still urgently ask the creators of ahk to PLEASE MAKE UPX AN OPTION WICH YOU CAN SET AT THE BEGINNING OF THE AHK-FILE WITH A DEFAULT OF OFF (so that it will NOT run through UPX)

Results of scanning with removed UPX (same ahk-sourcefile)
http://www.virustotal.com/nl/analisis/b ... 9b39dc1c1d

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You could just email "prevx1" and "TheHacker" and tell them that their stuff hits AHK scripts as false positives. Maybe you could use ALL CAPS in your emails too...

btw: moving/renaming/deleting upx.exe from the AHK folder would effectively do what you describe (default script compilation to not use upx)

If you really wanted to go all-out, you could copy the AHKtoEXE.exe file to a seperate folder then use a shortcut or batch file or add an extra "compile (no upx)" option to the shell menu for ahk scripts.

In short, there are many ways for you to get what you are asking for without waiting for someone to do it for you.

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[VxE] wrote:


Good idea! Here is the AHK code that will do this on a default install:

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float o=0.075,h=1.5,T,r,O,l,I;int _,L=80,s=3200;main(){for(;s%L||
(h-=o,T= -2),s;4 -(r=O*O)<(l=I*I)|++ _==L&&write(1,(--s%L?_<L?--_
%6:6:7)+"World! \n",1)&&(O=I=l=_=r=0,T+=o /2))O=I*2*O+h,I=l+T-r;}