I've only been using Code::Blocks with the mingw compiler since February of this year. I'm just a beginner and have only written a few simple programs in C++. A couple of weeks ago I uploaded a class from google to see if I could learn a bit more from them. I don't remember how this happened but somehow one of the files I was using opened with a dev C++ window. A few days later I began getting a virus signal from Norton 360 that there was a Sape Heur 1950 virus in one of my C++ programs.
I ran a full scan and it only found some tracking cookies. A few days passed and I got the same report on another C++ program. I looked at a few other of my C++ programs and I got the same signal on about half of them. The other half ran just fine. Worried that either Code::Blocks or Dev C++ were infected I delete both from my PC.
I've tried to upload Code::Blocks again and it keeps getting blocked by Norton 360. Since then I have been on the Norton website to make sure I don't have a virus on my PC. But none are reported.
I don't know if either of these IDE have a virus problem or not.
Can anyone give me some ideas on what to do next, I want to keep learning C++, but I need another (free) IDE or compiler to use.