On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 12:28 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote: > Hi Richard, > I may have found it. > I have McAfee virus protection on my PC, courtesy of BT. > I downloaded the 2.5 Version from the website and it Typeset fine > When I tried extracting the Nov30 download using the Windows Extract > as opposed to 7-Zip I got a message to say that I had been protected > from an unspecified threat! This is presumably a false positive (as the file is created by compiling on a machine running a Unix type operating system, it would quite convoluted to infect it). I can see why these programs want to flag up anything that happens to contain a particular sequence of bytes as they want to be seen to work quickly, but I don't understand why they don't see a need to then look more closely. They don't provide a practical route for submitting false positives either - I imagine commercial software can threaten to sue them and get them to whitelist their offerings...
Did the other machine you tested run the same brand of anti-virus? Richard
