And I'm a pirate again. Harrharr.

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And I'm a pirate again. Harrharr.

Dear Embarcadero, I have to admit, long time ago (since 1986) I used a cracked version of Turbo Pascal but have been able to change this legally into a licensed version in 1990 when all cracked versions used in the former GDR could be upgraded under Borland's amnesty.
I doubt you still find traces of this on my PC ... but it looks like you do ...

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  1. Dorin DuminicaDecember 23, 2015 at 6:20 AM

    I wonder if some plugin triggers some "validation"...

    What I DO LIKE A LOT is the fact that they are not sure what's wrong, the product or the license, and at this point, I'm afraid to ask (;

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  2. Fred AhrensDecember 23, 2015 at 6:25 AM

    Dorin Duminica This time I have been away from the PC for a while when this happend. Usually it happens when hitting F9 for starting the debugger. I have no idea. I just start Delphi again and everything is "fine".

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  3. Carlos TréDecember 23, 2015 at 6:46 AM

    So the usual argument that it is our fault for having unsigned dlls in Delphi's bin folder, or windows system's does not apply. I thought the new management would see the importance of fixing this annoying bug, but I guess I'm wrong.

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  4. Stefan GlienkeDecember 23, 2015 at 6:56 AM

    Carlos Tré In what reality do you live where a change of management causes bug fixes without having a release at all after the change took place?

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  5. Carlos TréDecember 23, 2015 at 7:00 AM

    Stefan Glienke I meant product management, not company ownership.

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  6. Fred AhrensDecember 23, 2015 at 7:03 AM

    Carlos Tré I have only files in the bin folder that have been put there by the Delphi installer.

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  7. Carlos TréDecember 23, 2015 at 7:22 AM

    Fred Ahrens, that's my case too. Anyway, from what I've seen in similar threads here, it seems to be their opinion this is the main reason in the majority of the cases, so false positives as reported earlier are acceptable collateral damages.

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  8. Borja BorjaDecember 23, 2015 at 7:43 AM

    Try to put the bin folder of the IDE in the folders not managed by your antivirus.

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  9. Fred AhrensDecember 23, 2015 at 8:02 AM

    Borja Borja I'll give it a try.

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  10. Eric GrangeDecember 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM

    you're holding it wrong

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  11. Dorin DuminicaDecember 23, 2015 at 8:36 AM

    Eric Grange oh no you didn't!

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  12. Fred AhrensDecember 23, 2015 at 8:37 AM

    Eric Grange I think this applies to Xcode. ... and don't get me started on the current Xcode versions ... ;)

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  13. Dorin DuminicaDecember 23, 2015 at 8:40 AM

    Fred Ahrens I'm using Xcode daily(mostly iOS dev) directly, not through some second class tool, sure, it has some bugs, but fewer blocking bugs

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  14. Nicholas RingDecember 23, 2015 at 10:29 AM

    >And I'm a pirate again. Harrharr.

    Obviously, once a pirate, always a pirate... Arr!

    But seriously, since there is no information saying why the anti-piracy was activated, there is no way to figure out the cause - it could be a plugin, DLL in the wrong place, over-zealous A/V, some rogue program injecting itself in to the IDE's process space... and/or what-ever else.

    It would be nice to have the ability to install a (time-limited?) IDE that produces some information while it thinks you are a pirate but that would come back as a Heisenbug.

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  15. Heinz ToskanoDecember 23, 2015 at 12:06 PM

    Nicholas Ring you forgot the most common culprid... loosy coding!

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  16. Fred AhrensJanuary 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM

    As recommended by Borja Borja , excluding the bin path from the virus scanner seems to be a solution workaround for the problem. But honestly: software that doesn't work with my antivirus (in my case the normal builtin Windows Defender) usually gets uninstalled quite quickly. This really needs to be fixed.

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  17. Fred AhrensJanuary 8, 2016 at 5:52 AM

    Ooops. excluding the bin folder from a virus scan DOES NOT - I repeat - DOES NOT solve the problem. :(
    This time it happened again that the IDE got closed while being away from the PC. ... No, I'm the only person who has access to this machine and it was locked. ...

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  18. Nicholas RingJanuary 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM

    :(

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