Search "livecode widget tutorial" Webroot: moderate risk

[erikhans08]

Searching "livecode widget tutorial" on Windows 10 I got some "moderate risk" "some probability" readings from Webroot. I used to get these from Band-In-A-Box and was told by their support that everything was OK. There never were any problems. Is this the case here? Just a hiccup?

[Mikey]

It's the same reason that on some machines, some AV software will mark your compiled apps as hazardous. Heuristics aren't perfect.

[erikhans08]

Thanks Mikey

[FourthWorld]

Many AV packages rely on Bloom filters for pattern scanning, which are great for efficiency but have a well-known side-effect of being prone to false-positives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

I've found it's often helpful to drop a note to the tech support staff of the AV vendor with a URL to the app triggering the false positive so they can refine their patterns to account for it more accurately.