CodeAdze;12023 wrote:Hi Remco,
I think I might have found what the problem is, it appears that it could be the ransomware protection inside my antivirus software which is weird as these two have been happily playing on the same box for ages now. I have turned the ransomware protection off and NCrunch appears to be back to its usual self so I will use it for a while just to make sure it's all good and let you know.
It often feels quite surprising when this sort of thing comes up, but it's actually pretty common.
NCrunch has a whole world of platform integration, right through the build system, manipulation of PDBs and DLLs, hierarchical spawning of processes, and execution of dynamic and user code. You could take any one of these things and security software would consider it suspect. Sadly, there isn't really any working around the false positives. We try to report them where we can, but there are now literally hundreds of widely used scanning and security products and many of them are particularly bureaucratic when it comes to submitting false positives. I would suggest reporting this to the vendor of your ransomware protection software, as I doubt they intend for their software to behave this way.