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9:23:07
Colleen
<shinmera> Apparently Norton AV is interfering with my Kandria releases in a very bizarre way: some files (wav files) appear corrupted when the game tries to read them.
9:55:58
SAL9000
yeah I wasn't suggesting that you should use MP3, just imagining the Norton team's thought process
9:56:48
SAL9000
jokes aside it might be something to do with the specific IO-pattern? block sizes etc.
9:57:45
SAL9000
I listened to a talk from CppCon '15 about how to do "atomic" I/O properly on Windows & someone in the video comments mentioned that every time they tried a specific technique the AV would trip and block it, while the "incorrect" method was permitted.
10:30:22
SAL9000
according to our IT dept the baseline windows defender doesn't do behavioral analysis, this was their excuse for foisting noisy spyware on us
10:30:36
SAL9000
(which also basically doubles the reboots-per-week with its own "thou shalt update" bs)
10:38:07
Colleen
<shinmera> that's fair, but I think behavioural analysis is going to cause them just as many bug tickets as well due to false positives.
10:43:12
SAL9000
if you mean our internal IT, I've been poking them about the AV getting in the way of work for ages now, no-one is listening
10:43:26
SAL9000
if you mean the AV vendors in general, it takes some serious effort to get them to listen at all
10:44:01
Colleen
<shinmera> Well, got traffic from the lisp folks. But not from my post. It never went anywhere.