The graphic demos by the German group Farb Rausch are NOT viruses or malware, yet Avast and other AV software keep tagging them as such, no matter how often they’re submitted as false positives.
Almost every time I go to the folder where I have my favorite Farb Rausch demos, Avast claims one is a virus or trojan and deletes it.
STOP DOING THAT! It just tagged and bagged both versions of fr-019: poemtoahorse and I submitted them both as false positives.
Message to the Avast crew, download all the Farb Rausch demos, enjoy them. Learn what is NOT nasty, destructive code. You’ll improve Avast.
They are NOT in any way infected. The problem is with Avast and most other AV software, or more specifically the people who write that software.
They keep failing to upgrade their detection processes to be able to distinguish between a genuine threat and the extremely clever coding that Farb Rausch and other demo groups use to create high performance audiovisual entertainment packed into the smallest space possible.
Several of their demos are only 64 kilobytes yet can generate a gigabyte or more of sound, 3D geometry and graphics during the demo’s run.
These demo authors are very creative people who are NOT using their skills destructively, unlike the very creative people who do write viruses, worms, trojans and other malware.
That’s why the people at Avast need to download and dissect the demos from Farb Rausch and other demo groups. They will learn a lot, which they can then use to make Avast an even better AV program, and make it produce fewer false positives. They should spend a while downloading stuff from scene.org One may be confident that nothing hosted there is any kind of malware.
So far, nothing of that sort appears to have happened because opening my Demos folder is a game of “Which one will Avast claim is a ‘virus’ this time?”. I just had it do a full scan on that folder and got warnings that three others are “decompression bombs”, but it lets those run.