Kaspersky Free blocks hspeak.exe #1195
Labels
hspeak
HSpeak compiler; HamsterSpeak. Label "script import" or "scripts" for everything after compiling
os: windows
Windows-specific
resolved: duplicate
A duplicate of another bug
spawning
Bugs relating to spawning HSpeak, Game, oggenc, etc
virus scanners
The second-worst computer affliction, after viruses/malware
Prifurin reports that Kaspersky Free edition doesn't like hspeak.exe, detecting it as VHO:Packed.Win32.Generic. Oddly the version of Kaspersky on Virus Total does not. Has been happening since at least August 2020 (using a 20200704 nightly) and is still happening.
Additionally, even if you whitelist the directory it seems to sometimes take a very long time to run hspeak.exe, to the point that the 5-second timeout in
safe_shell
trips andget_hspeak_version
breaks, preventing import.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: