Bitten by Ad-Aware, start the cold war. (Score 4, Interesting)

My software, Radiate generated a false-positive in Ad-Aware because my executable filename ( Radiate.exe ) matched that of a scumware company Aureate Media's.

As a freeware developer, I now have to invest extra time to get the latest list of targeted filenames by Ad-Aware and similar software.

Ad-Aware is simple-ware with a noble cause - I can't fault it for that. Perhaps it needs to do more fuzzy searches, such as "expected registry keys", "expected support files", "exe file size greater than 2mb (to catch patched exes)" to ensure a positive match, and report the results "98% chance it's a positive match.".

Where is this cold war taking us?

Morph-ware: The ability to change the signiature of your software dynamically - filesizes, filenames, icon pixel color variations, title bar text manipulation, and randomizing the internal exe identifiers for windows.