Henrik Schmid wrote:

While debugging a program I noticed the message 'C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.dll loaded' in the
output pane of Visual Studio.

Needless to say that my program does not explicitely load boinc.dll.

What gives?

If it's in the BOINC program directory, and it's got the extension ".dll", then it very much looks like a dynamic load/link library for BOINC and specific to BOINC.

All very much the Microsoft way of things. Looks normal.

Visual Studio may well be picking it up from loading up everything on your search path. Or you may have a copy in the Windows heirarchy.


So why are you worried that it might be a virus?

Good luck,
Martin