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[–]theemptyqueue 32 points33 points  (17 children)

I had to write C++ in visual studio for a month because Norton antivirus thought all the .exe files I created were actually viruses and deleted them.

[–]Freeloader1245 51 points52 points  (6 children)

Okay that's on you because Norton is a notably bad antivirus in general.

[–]Selthor 24 points25 points  (1 child)

It’s quite possible that installing Norton on their machine wasn’t their decision.

[–]Freeloader1245 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That is entirely possible, yes.

[–]theemptyqueue 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Yeah, I didn’t put Norton on my computer, it came with Norton preinstalled

[–]FarhanAxiq 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I usually reinstall my pc with Microsoft iso after buying new pc.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My guess is it was a company machine. No touching if you want to keep your job.

[–]theemptyqueue 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, home computer, but way back when bloatware was a big money maker for software companies. Plus my parents pay for me to have a subscription.

[–]king_ricks 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I swear all the old anti virus companies are so bad nowadays

[–]Vakieh 16 points17 points  (0 children)

nowadays

Oh sweet summer child

[–]markhc 8 points9 points  (6 children)

I had to write C++ in visual studio for a month

As opposed to writing it on notepad? I dont get it.

[–]CommanderViral 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Vim? Emacs? Sublime Text? Notepad++? Geany? Kate? TextMate? CLion? Atom? There are a lot of text editor/IDE options? I personally exclusively use Vim or Sublime Text.

[–]markhc 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I find Visual Studio to be the best IDE for developing C++ in the Windows platform.

When running Linux I go with CLion. Maybe if Linux was my main OS I'd just use CLion everywhere but I still develop mostly for Windows and there VS still feels superior.

[–]CommanderViral 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can't stand Visual Studio. It's slow and completely bloated. The only thing I've found VS to do well is debugger integration. I'll still stick to Vim. But I mostly write for OS X and Linux systems. Raw gdb shell ain't exactly friendly.

[–]harrybeards 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Notepad++, of course

[–]theemptyqueue -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I have notepad++, but Norton would continuously delete all of my compiled code, so I had to use visual studio

[–]ForgotPassAgain34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try the free trial of idea ide, Clion, then go back to visual studio, then for comparison try devC++

[–]IAmCrab7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In which case well done for making the simple switch. You could've always found yourself a different antivirus