On Tuesday 09 June 2009 15:51:08 Zero3 wrote:
> Matthew Toseland skrev:
> > What can we do to avoid trouble with antiviruses? Would it help to install 
> > a service under LocalSystem rather than creating a new user?
> 
> (We are talking Windows here, btw.)
> 
> Not sure. We *are* messing around with the user's system quite a bit. It 
> is indeed not normal practice to create a new, password-expire-less, 
> hidden user with access to logon as a service in the background. And 
> then running a custom internet-enabled service under it. I can 
> understand why some antivirus products gets suspicious about that (not 
> justifying the silent messing around with our installation though).
> 
> According to the AHK forums, this has happened before (and several 
> people mailed antivirus companies in order to have the false detections 
> removed, which they apparently were).

Well, should we try some things such as installing as NetworkService or 
whatever? (Only on OS's where it exists i.e. not win2k). And will we be able to 
test it? And how much of it are you interested in doing?
> 
> - Zero3
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