Hello, I am not a professional programmer, use Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2013 to program and I use my PC for everything, not just programming. So it has all kinds of stuff installed. Not sure if this matters. I'm also not 100% sure if this is the correct place to ask for help (if not, please tell me where to ask instead), but anyway, here is my question/problem:
Yesterday I wanted to compile protobuf-2.6.0 into static libraries to use in my project so I read and followed the instructions in \protobuf-2.6.0\vsprojects\readme.txt I opened the protobuf.sln in Visual Studio 2013, it said it needed to run the auto-convert so I clicked yes. After that I tried to build the solution like instructed in the readme, but it failed because of some simultaneous accesses to some file, looked up what I need to do and added the /FS compiler option to every project. Then I ran "Rebuild Solution" and it worked. Now for the important part: "From a command shell, run tests.exe and lite-test.exe and check that all tests pass." So I went into the \Debug folder, shift-rightclick "Open Command prompt here", entered tests.exe and pressed enter. Everything went well except for two errors that I forgot because I didn't think they were important because I'm never going to use the features the errors were about anyways. The problem about the whole thing is, after I was done compiling and got back to my main project, I got a lot of errors regarding missing header files. "boost.h" not found, "box2d.h" not found etc. So I checked the folders and..... a lot of files were gone, but not all of them. The *.lib files of boost for instance were still there, but header files were deleted. Was it a virus? Nope, virus check negative. Malware? Malware check negative. No suspicious files running, no alerts or anything, except of course the prompt to allow tests.exe to do it's thing. Went into Comodo Internet Securitys Logfiles and found out that tests.exe "modified" (deleted) a bunch of apparently completely random files! Whaaaaat? Why? How? I don't get it... Luckily windows was able to restore some of the folders back to their previous state, BUT I don't even know how many or which ones are affected. The only reference that I have is Comodos Logfile, which doesn't seem to list all files that got deleted. For instance it shows "C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe" was modified by tests.exe, but all other files in that folder were gone EXCEPT Gw2.exe. I have restored mostly everything that was logged, but am not sure if I missed anything and I don't know if the restore option will be available until the day I find out that more files were deleted. I wanna know WHY this happened and if I can find out what else got deleted. Sadly I am not experienced enough to decipher the protobuffer source files and find out where the code is that deleted everything. Maybe I'm completely wrong about it being tests.exe but I cannot imagine anything else and the files were gone right after I ran it so I assume it has something to do with all of this. The site where I downloaded the files is: https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases (protobuf-2.6.0.zip) And here the report from Comodo: http://oi58.tinypic.com/2469h8i.jpg I hope that at least someone can point me in the right direction, maybe it's not protobufs fault and it's Comodo, my antivirus program, but it has never done anything like this before. (In the worst case it only moves files to quarantine). Maybe the combination of both causes this behaviour. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
