I've lost weeks of my life to hacking around problems caused by antivirus software.

Oh, I got paid for the time, but which is more satisfying and looks better on my resume: "Hacked around antivirus bugs" or "Built a cool and awesome feature"? :-)

Here's my previous rant on the topic with specific details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248084

And a mention of one of the debugging techniques that was helpful here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250001