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Many false positive of AV with NSIS 3.0.b3

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Morten#

Many false positive of AV with NSIS 3.0.b3

Dear all,

installers created with NSIS v3.0.b3 are detected by quite some AntiVirus solutions as being a virus. This includes AVAST or the Microsoft Defender.

An example is this archive:


Anything I can do about it? A flag to disable portions that could cause such false alarms, for example?
mrjohn#
Avast has tons of FP,I report FP from 2013 only for Evo-gen,one file is fixed,another comes in one/two weeks:
Morten#
Originally Posted by mrjohn View Post
Avast has tons of FP,I report FP from 2013 only for Evo-gen,one file is fixed,another comes in one/two weeks:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=143101.0;nowap
So true... I wonder whats the portion where AV S/W reacts that sensitive. I think its sure not a NSIS error, but maybe implementing the on or other feature slightly different may help...
mrjohn#
until a BIG fix is done on AVAST,you can report FP,they will fix it,but soon another will come
try this https://support.avast.com/support/tickets/new?form=3