FWIW .. I use the paid AVG Internet Security and the program installed
without error.
That said, many antivirus programs will be triggered on Ham Radio
programs as they are not in 'wide spread' use, and are not in their
lists of authenticated programs.
Neil, KN3ILZ
On 9/17/2018 3:32 PM, Bill Somerville wrote:
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.
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