r/syncterm

I'm extremely new to the BBS community, to the point where I have only now finished reading up on the basics. A little while ago I acquired the latest release of SyncTERM for Windows, and after feeding it through VirusTotal, I received alerts by TrendMicro and TrendMicro-HouseCall, flagging "HEUR_NAMETRICK.D".

I'm confident that this can't be anything but a false positive, given that TrendMicro is also flagging LibreOffice, InkScape, and plenty of other FOSS tools for the same reason... not to mention that it's only two out of seventy possible detections. Despite this, 1.9rc2 is only a couple of days old with only a few hundred downloads, so I'm wary to launch it for the first time.

I'm hoping that other BBS users may have some insight on this. In short, is there any reason to be concerned about this? Can I dismiss this detection without concern? Thank you.

This is the second release candidate for SyncTERM v1.9. If there are no bugs, reported in the next week or two, this will become the official SyncTERM release.

To that end, if you use SyncTERM, please try the rc2 release, and report any bugs you find. If you're not sure if something is a bug, open a support ticket and ask.

Changes since 1.8:

• Fix error when scrolling with a non-black background colour
• Fix Prestel double-height bottom-half redraw on overwrite
• Fix key repeat on Wayland
• Fix Wayland content size change
• Fix Quartz and Wayland mapping on non-PC charsets (ATASCII etc)
• Change Qartz to map Command to Alt, not Option per Apple design
• Rework filepick widget

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page, if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9rc2
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This is the first release candidate for SyncTERM v1.9. If there are no bugs, reported in the next week or two, this will become the official SyncTERM release.

To that end, if you use SyncTERM, please try the rc1 release, and report any bugs you find. If you're not sure if something is a bug, open a support ticket and ask.

Changes since 1.8:

• Fix error when scrolling with a non-black background colour
• Fix Prestel double-height bottom-half redraw on overwrite
• Fix key repeat on Wayland
• Fix Wayland content size change
• Rework filepick widget

Bugs and Support tickets (and feature requests) are tracked on the SourceForge page, if you create a SourceForge account, you can be notified when I reply/fix bugs, and it really helps in case I need to ask follow-up questions, so please consider making that account and logging in before opening a ticket. That said, I would rather have bug reports as anonymous than not know about issues.

Files for 1.9rc1
Bug Tracker
Support Tracker

Home page