pikoSzachy Extreme Edition

[carldaman]

OK, McAfee thinks the pikoSzachy exe is actually the Artemis virus. Probably a false positive, but not taking any chances at the moment.

Hi,

I've noticed that something really strange happens when I unzip the downloaded archive containing the executables. Right after unzipping, the pikoSzachy.exe is somehow "auto-deleted" within seconds. I've never seen anything like this before - the file simply vanishes from the folder.

What could account for this baffling behavior? (NanoSzachy runs fine, btw)

Regards,
CL

Hello all and Happy New Year!

I released new version of pikoSzachy. This time there's special edition - I called it Extreme Edition. So far the size of pikoSzachy was from 8 to 10 KB. Last version of pikoSzachy had 9.5 KB. The new version has only 7.5 KB and is based on very old version 2.3 from year 2008, the smallest version so far. New version is extremally small, comparing to version 2.3 is 7% smaller and about 200 ELO stronger and comparing to version 4.0 it is 27% smaller and about 100 ELO weaker.

Enjoy it

Download is available at http://www.kalisz.mm.pl/~pic/nanochess/ (together with regular versions of nanoSzachy and pikoSzachy)

[hgm]

Most likely your virus scanner does not like pikoSzachy very much...

[Sylwy]

OK, McAfee thinks the pikoSzachy exe is actually the Artemis virus.

Hey Carl

What about if your McAfee gives you a sweet alert: Aphrodite virus... ????
Why don't they do to me stuff like that ???

Cheers,
SilvianR

[PK]

I have heard about these alerts ever since I know this engine.

[Sylwy]

I have heard about these alerts ever since I know this engine.

Tested with:

-Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection
-Avira AntivirusPro
-Bitdefender !

pikoSzachy never was a problem on my PCs.

Regards,
SilvianR

[noctiferus]

aargh!

A check with VirusTotal gives not nice results...

checked with 56 antiviruses, 21 suspect results.

It is not the first time I found similar results (but not at this level).
To be honest, in the previous cases, however, I did not see any complaint for damages by the users of the older versions.

PS: almost all of the more common AVs find it clean. An exception is McAfee, but McAfee-GW-Edition finds it clean.

[noctiferus]

if it can be useful, the suspects seem related to both pycoSz, while the nanoSz looks clean