Bench Mate Peculiarity

I know. Why keep using Windows Defender. It's free, is a pain to remove, and is baked into the OS.

I noticed a pop-up on my L5 that a threat had been found. Looking at the details, Windows Defender was having conniptions with Benchmate. I hadn't used the application in awhile. It might have been do to an older version. I cleared the quarantine and updated Benchmate. Not sure if anyone else has had this problem. But I wanted to share.

 

Antivirus software that makes rash decisions on the fly based on the behavior of software (heuristics) is often flagging legitimate programs. I have also seen other completely legitimate and safe things like ThrottleStop erroneously identified as malware.

 

https://benchmate.org/changelog/0.10.7.2

Changelog 0.10.7.2 - 19.04.2021

Maintenance update to fix false detection of Antivirus tools, HWiNFO update to support latest hardware

• Wrongly detected malware warning fixed for multiple AV engines by improving the code and compilation to circumvent detection
• Smaller improvements to security and performance for all executables
• Updated HWiNFO SDK to the latest beta version (7.03)
• Updated HWiNFO tool to the latest beta version
• Updated all libraries/dependencies to their latest versions
• Updated Qt installer framework to 4.1
• Reported the executable of BenchMate 0.10.7.1 to Microsoft so they do something about their false positives

 

I wonder if they fixed the bug with Benchmade telling wPrime it has more threads than the CPU has, which lowers the score?

 

Probably not. Because it doesn't affect all HW and from what I have seen it show also different amount threads depending on OS version

Maybe we also should put some of the blame on Micro$lope for make it a mess? Yeah, I think we say so

This is todays tech world! Windows 10 News and Announcements...

 

I never have believed that we evolved from monkeys, because that's just stupid. But it certainly seems like we are de-evolving into monkeys based on the way things are going in the PC tech world.