Copy text from any app to CherryTree does not work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Windows 8.1 x64, Notepad++ 6.6.9, CherryTree 0.35.3
2. Copy text from Notepad++ to CherryTree FAILS. No copy/paste, pressing Paste 
does nothing. Copying and pasting to all other apps works. 
Actually, copying and pasting from regular Notepad also does not work. 

It works from CherryTree to all apps. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Copy and paste should work, I suppose. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@sverdlov.net on 5 Nov 2014 at 12:21

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I tested on windows 7 x64 ita and wasn't able to reproduce there, will try on 
windows 8 soon.

Please in the meanwhile try to paste with Ctrl+Shift+V (paste as plain text) 
and report if this works.

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2014 at 1:03

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Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2014 at 1:06

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Pasting ctrl+shift+v or the UI button to paste plain text does not work as 
well. 

Win8.1 is x64 if that makes any difference. Reboot did not help. The AV is 
Webroot. Disabling this AV solves the problem completely. 

But... no issues with other apps on ctrl+v/ctrl+c, just that one. 

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 5 Nov 2014 at 1:37

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Seems like Webroot antivirus is considering CherryTree a virus... maybe they 
are actually right! :)
I tested only with Avast and it works fine, you are the first to report this 
kind of issue, in the past another antivirus was complaining about the 
dbus-daemon.exe that CherryTree uses.
Is it possible to insert CherryTree in a kind of whitelist in Webroot?
I will try to understand what in the CherryTree behaviour is not accepted from 
Webroot, if you will have tips let me know.

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2014 at 9:35

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I believe the problem is with some protection mechanism, not with detection as 
a virus - it does not raise alerts, just does not execute the copy paste 
functions. Suppose if all other software works, yours uses something unique and 
it is automatically blacklisted (webroot is behavior based, not signature 
based). It's not what the program is, but what and how it's doing it.

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 6 Nov 2014 at 10:51

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I would expect an action from an Anti-Virus with a copy *from* CherryTree and 
not *to* CherryTree since in this case CherryTree is just reading data from the 
clipboard and the access to the clipboard is using the gtk2 library functions.

Can you confirm that this problem is only with 0.35.3 and with older versions 
you didn't have?

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2014 at 12:01

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I have just installed (found) cherry tree, did not use previous versions. 

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 7 Nov 2014 at 12:03

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I installed Webroot AV (14 days trial) on a windows 7 x64 ita but no way to 
reproduce the problem.

Did you enable some particular Webroot AV features?

If you have chance to test cherrytree on a windows 7 or XP installation with 
Webroot, please let me know if you find the problem there too or not.

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2014 at 11:19

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I also finally tried on a Windows 8.1 x64 ita installation and Webroot AV (14 
days trial), not any problem copying from Notepad++ to CherryTree 0.35.3, If I 
cannot reproduce the problem I will not be able to help you/fix this.

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2014 at 11:28

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I have all advanced heuristics turned on to their highest level in Webroot. For 
cherrytree I added the application to the exceptions which solved it for me :) 
Probably not worth your effort. Though it would be nice if you used more 
standard functions like the ones used in Notepad++ for copy/paste, to avoid 
this in other security apps, maybe. 

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 9 Nov 2014 at 6:19

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C:\Program Files (x86)\CherryTree\bin\dbus-daemon.exe is being identified by 
VirusTotal, fyi. 

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 10 Nov 2014 at 5:59

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https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/11b969ace1f2793d14a44eef2bc093ef431c5b45e3bce
aebec46950f686c57b6/analysis/1415599119/

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 10 Nov 2014 at 6:02

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c:\program files (x86)\cherrytree\bin\dbus-binding-tool.exe as well... and 
c:\program files (x86)\cherrytree\lib\enchant\libenchant_ispell.dll and 
c:\program files (x86)\cherrytree\lib\enchant\libenchant_myspell.dll

Original comment by a...@sverdlov.net on 10 Nov 2014 at 6:11

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If you will spot the settings that cause cherrytree copy/paste to be blocked I 
can try to reproduce and so spot where the problem is, as for the .exe spotted 
as virus I can do nothing as they are not virus.

Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2014 at 10:37

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Original comment by giuspen@gmail.com on 13 Nov 2014 at 9:28

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