Freitag, 15. März 2019

VisualFORTH available again!

For a few days VisualFORTH wasn't available for download.

Thanks to my special measures having website access and content hosting separated,
I could use a new hosting site to offer VisualFORTH download again.

If you download VisualFORTH from http://visualforth.org/ there still may be problems with your antivirus software, and the only thing which helps for now is to exclude the VisualFORTH/Win32Forth folder from being checked by your antivirus software.

We are still looking for a better solutions, many people are involved in this search, see our Win32Forth Facebook page.

Freitag, 8. März 2019

Exploits/Malware

Two days ago I got this message:

The hosting for somersetweb.com has been suspended. It was suspended because there was a registration agreement violation.

More specifically,

Exploits/Malware. Permanent Suspension

I contacted my hosting company immediately. They sent me back the hosted data and I ran a scan with Malwarebytes, getting this list of VisualFORTH-files:
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\EXAMPLES\TEXTBOX64.EXE
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\EXAMPLES\LEDBOX.EXE
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\EXAMPLES\ONETEST.EXE
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\VISUALFORTH-6-1505.ZIP
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\EXAMPLES\LEDSWITCH.EXE
Generic.Malware/Suspicious, C:\SOMERSETWEB\VISUALFORTH\EXAMPLES\RPN-CALC.EXE

This software is stored on these locations since several years, starting in 2009, and never was rejected. Since a while more and more antivirus programs classify Win32Forth programs as malware.
There is a group of Win32Forth users which are trying to fix this problem, see Facebook, Google, and Yahoo groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/714452415259600/ 
Members of the Taiwan Forth Interest Group are helping a lot.

I hope that my webpage VisualFORTH.org will run soon again.

For now there is no download of VisualFORTH available, because all VisualFORTH website contents are hosted at SomersetWEB.com.