HexChat 2.12.0 Released.
reddit / irc

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Corosus · 2016-03-13 00:41

"fix numerous crashes (but not #600)"

http://i.imgur.com/IgMyx.gif

I should just setup a local bouncer so I can workaround this issue
already.

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darkclone24 · 2016-03-13 10:11

Kaspersky detected a Trojan in the update and now my computer won't
boot.

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TingPing · 2016-03-13 12:02

Well both of those problems are purely on Kaspersky, they will
probably update some whitelist eventually as this seems to happen
every release for various AV. (IRC being used by various malware and
all)

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darkclone24 · 2016-03-13 13:47

Managed to get up and running, reverted back to 2.10. It's curious
that Kaspersky has never done this with any other IRC client though.

Will try updating HexChat after my next Kaspersky update. Thanks.

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TingPing · 2016-03-13 14:09

I wish I knew why, perhaps some malware does directly use HexChat's
source, perhaps some users have falsely flagged it in the past,
perhaps they flagged it because of the content of logs in the past.

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TingPing · 2016-03-13 19:08

Release notes: https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.12.0.html

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Saber_UK · 2016-03-14 03:17

Antivirus vendors are massively incompetent and will be first against
the wall when the revolution comes.

A few years back we had problems with InspIRCd's Windows installer
being detected as malware by several antivirus products. I set out to
contact the vendors to get it unlisted and of the few I could even
find a place to report false positives only two actually bothered to
delist it.

In the end we switched the installer compression method from LZMA to
zlib and 98% of the antivirus software stopped whining about it.