VisualGDB file SessionServer.exe

[danielone]

Hello,

Can you kindly confirm that the file SessionServer.exe found in the VisualGDB installation directory is part of the VisualGDB application? Can you kindly explain what does this executable do?

Thanks!

[support]

Hi,

Yes, it’s a part of the VisualGDB installation responsible for the floating license mechanism. If you are using a floating license, it will run in the background, fetching up-to-date session keys from our licensing server to all running VisualGDB instances.

[danielone]

Many thanks,

Just for you to know that it has ben caught by my anti virus program (Avira free edition) today (first time despite I installed VisualGDB time ago)…

It detected it as a trojan “Downloader.MSIL.D.” It obviously immediately looked like a false positive to me and I inserted the file in the exception list.

Just for you to know if other users might incur in the same issue.

Regards.

[support]

No problem. Unfortunately most of the modern antivirus software is not very practical – it tries to either search every exe file against a large database of regular expressions (triggering random false positives for high-entropy compressed images like the toolchain installers) or to flag every file that would issue HTTP requests (like our session server) as suspicious.

We have briefly rechecked with VirusTotal and Avira doesn’t report it as suspicious, so it’s hard to say why it’s triggering on your side. Please consider submitting a false positive request to them with the exact details of your antivirus version & type (we can only do that if we see false positives from major AV vendors on Virus Total). Also if you are not planning to use the floating license, you can simply delete the file.

Update: we have created a page listing the components that most often trigger false positives with antivirus software: https://visualgdb.com/documentation/falsepositives/

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by support.

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