Anything so new is going to flag on a lot of anti-virus programs. Us end-users need to be on our toes because we are still smarter than our machines (for now).
:) Jim S. N2ADV -----Original Message----- From: Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 3:32 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X FT-8 B v2.0-rc1 bug On 17/09/2018 20:24, Charles Otnott via wsjt-devel wrote: > I have detected a bug installing > the v2.0-rc1 software. > > After successful downloading of the > v2.0-rc1 software the following problem > was encountered: > > Problem: Firewall/virus software AVG free > version reports v2.0-rc1 is a virus and > will not allow installation. > > Solution: Halted AVG free version. The > installation of v2.0-rc1 continued without > incident. Restarted computer to allow > AVG free edition to resume protection. Hi Charles, that is not a defect in the WSJT-X installer or software. AV products use many generic heuristics to flag potential malware, they normally have Gen or Generic in the so-called virus name. This is certainly a false positive and should be reported to AVG so they can update their malware signatures. There's nothing we can do about these annoying false-positives I'm afraid, it is the lot of low volume non-commercial software providers to suffer from these false accusations. You should be able to flag the installer as safe (white list) with your AV software rather than completely disabling it during the install. 73 Bill G4WJS. _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
