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Symantec Antivirus just deleted all of my autohotkey scripts' executable files, having mistakenly identified them as trojans. It also seems to be preventing me from creating new exe files.

What should I do?

I don't know a solution for the symantec program
can restore , example in XP start this and make back to a previous system test point

to don't lose your programs:
-make an ahk script which automatically saves to a 2.5" USB drive all created/modified files (example when shutdown)
( at the moment I use xxcopy )

Thanks for the reply. However, it's not so much *losing* the programs that I'm concerned about, since I have the scripts from which the programs were compiled. It's the fact that I can't *use* any exe files, or create new ones. So, e.g. my basic keyboard shortcuts cannot be automatically loaded when I start up windows.

Hi

I am struggling against this too. In our network (with lotsa PCs), my compiled AutoHotkey EXEs are being nuked by Symantec.

Currently we are excluding the AHK Program folder (c:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\) as an excluded folder within the configuration of Symantec AntiVirus application. then we get the files restored out of quarantine.

It seems that a virus definition update of 17-08-2008 is the culprit http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-021914-2822-99.

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Paul O

ditto, i've been using dualboxed.com scripts.. they were deleted..

i don't think it's that one. i have the same problem and my defs file is '16/08/2008 rev. 3'

jack

if you have autohotkey installed in the machine then you usually don't need the .exe anyway.

i load my key defs by running 'startup.ahk', which is a script that does lots of startup things for me... and in startup.ahk i have:




jack

Oh I forgot to mention that I recompiled after renaming/removing UPX.exe and these new files escaped the AV scanner.

Its been a busy day.

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Paul O

Even if UPX is harmless, AV programs thinks it's virus from time to time. After some bad experiences, I always compile my scripts without compression. Problem solved.
Maybe upx should be disabled by default ?

Norton AV is a crap.

yes, that works very nicely.


thanks

jack

Thanks, I didn't know you could do that.

It doesn't fix things completely, though--the antivirus program freaks out when I try to run the script directly.

How do you set things to compile scripts without perimission?

If you mean compression, you need to rename UPX.exe in the compiler's directory to anything else. (Ex. UPX.exe.bak )

Yes, thanks, I meant compression.