dhruba.bandopad
6th June 2006 09:56 UTC

Latest NSIS installer has virus
My AVG (http://free.grisoft.com) virus scanner detected the NSIS installation file as a virus.

Did anyone else get this?

http://members.lycos.co.uk/kevingpo/...-2.16virus.jpg

Afrow UK
6th June 2006 11:08 UTC

False positive.
I'm sure other people will have this as well.

-Stu

onad
6th June 2006 15:39 UTC

IDEA? : See if we can make a webform script where we just tick the antivirus solution provider of a list of most common ones, we type the version press send and the antivirus provider gets a default letter per email and and entry in their forum of false positives.

I get sick of the crappy software with false positives giving NSIS a bad name.

onad
7th June 2006 11:59 UTC

Well I contacted AVG technical support and got the following answer:

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I am sorry but it looks like you mean false alarm that was already corrected in update released yesterday when we had some reports about it. Could you please verify this with up to date Avg? I downloaded one installer from web site you mentioned and nothing was detected. If there would be still problem then please send me direct link for file on which problem occurs. We will analyse it and remove it ASAP.

Thank you.

Best regards,

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AVG Technical Support
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dhruba.bandopad
7th June 2006 16:29 UTC

Originally posted by onad
Well I contacted AVG technical support and got the following answer:

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I am sorry but it looks like you mean false alarm that was <snippy snippy>

Yathosho
7th June 2006 19:08 UTC

with the increasing amount of posts like this, there should be a stickied article. there is also no word about this in the faq (only checked the webversion).

HaMsTeYr
13th June 2006 22:36 UTC

O_o
>_> i'm not sure if any of u other guys get this as well, but my anti-virus (BitDefender 9) is giving me problems with NSIS\Stubs\lzma saying... yes yes, the same virus... apparently BitDefender staff haven't done anything about it yet though >_>

*Frustrated and err.. pissed off >3*

{_trueparuex^}
14th June 2006 14:06 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives ;)

Don't take it as only joke. The wiki really needs a page to what contains information about the false positives.

Afrow UK
14th June 2006 16:14 UTC

Nice work :)

-Stu