martial opened this issue on Jul 14, 2014 · 7 posts
martial posted Mon, 14 July 2014 at 5:02 AM
Bonjour
I am using the last version of DAZStudio pro
My antivirus (Bitdefender) said sometime that the file called cppdl.exe inside D:DazStudiobin folder is potentially infected
In the past ,when i see this ,i deleted the file and recopy again cppdl.exe from an backup i have in a external HD for backup
Yesterday ,i have again the alert but this time i can recopy the file because Windows 8 say i need administrtor right (i though i have this right from my user account)
So what about this cppdl.exe ? Is it a false alert? Whitout it DazStudio is still loading and effective?
What can i do to copy it from my backup ?
Thanks
Martial
prixat posted Mon, 14 July 2014 at 10:46 AM
That's the C PreProcessor used by 3Delight. It's used when you run scripts or shaders.
There are regular questions about this every few months and I remember BitDefender being the cause everytime!
Scan it with something else like MalwareBytes just to be sure, then you can safely ignore the message.
regards
prixat
manleystanley posted Tue, 15 July 2014 at 3:44 PM
Bitdefender is giving you a false positive, it's well known for doing that; with a lot of different apps and games.
The fastest way to cure this is to uninstall bitdefender and install avast 
martial posted Tue, 15 July 2014 at 3:46 PM
Thanks for the info
Next time i will just ignore it
manleystanley posted Tue, 15 July 2014 at 4:46 PM
Why? I'm on quite few game and CG forums, bitdefender has a very bad reputation for false positives. I was trying to save you some trouble.
martial posted Tue, 15 July 2014 at 4:58 PM
i just mean i will ignore the bitdefender alert
(excuse my bad english i am a french speaking person)
manleystanley posted Tue, 15 July 2014 at 5:42 PM
K, my bad for missunderstanding 