in reply to McAfee False Positive

What exactly is triggering McAfee and how do I work around this?

Don't write self-modifying programs (in other words, don't act like a virus)

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Re^2: McAfee False Positive
by SavannahLion (Pilgrim) on Apr 08, 2010 at 12:56 UTC

    The code doesn't actually modify itself yet. It generates a copy of itself during the process. In fact because it's incomplete. It really just strips code out of itself.

    If I remove either the for loop or the maintainence block, McAfee lets it run. Combine the two and... well.

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