Docfx: Corporate AntiVirus is blocking docfx for "unauthorized encryption"

Created on 11 Mar 2020 · 3Comments · Source: dotnet/docfx

Operation System: 'Windows'

DocFX Version Used: 2.5

Template used: default

Steps to Reproduce:

Run docfx from Powershell
look at the html
change code commentary
Run docfx from Powershell again
Reapeat a few times

Expected Behavior:
No strike from the AntiVirus.
Actual Behavior:
Antivirus (Micro Trend Apex One) strikes. Due to "unauthorized encryption".

The question is, what is docfx encrypting and may I be able to disable that? I have no way of doing something about the corporate anti virus :(

Source

SimonSchulte

Most helpful comment

I searched for "crypto" in DocFX v2.5 source code. All matches were references to the System.Security.Cryptography namespace. There are a few MD5 hash computations in the application itself and SHA-1 in a test, but no encryption. I did not examine the libraries that DocFX uses, though.

Perhaps the antivirus vendor can fix the issue.

KalleOlaviNiemitalo on 12 Mar 2020

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Perhaps the antivirus vendor can fix the issue.

KalleOlaviNiemitalo on 12 Mar 2020

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It happened to me too. The problem is that the crappy AV (Trend Micro) that we have is detecting "overwritting an HTML file" as a malware encryption / ransomware -.-'

And it's not only DocFx, the same happens generating the HTML with the result of BenchmarkDotNet...