On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:36:33AM +0000, racoon wrote: > On 28.02.2018 12:04, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > > > > Strange. I just ran the installer again and now it works. > > > > The installer checks the Windows registry to locate LaTeX program. If you > > have MiKTeX or TeXLive installed but the installer cannot find it, your > > virus scanner blocks that the installer have read access to the registry. > > This should not happen but virus scanners ate often over eager. Blocking > > read permission makes no sense in my opinion. > > > > In general I cannot recommend using virus scanners because the make make > > problems than they solve. I am not using such scanners for years now and I > > am virus-free nevertheless. The best way to stay safe us to use > > consequently only non-admin accounts. If you need to install things that > > should be available for all users of the PC, allow elevated rights only for > > the installer. Thus way virus programs cannot modify e.g. the registry. > > Only if there are bugs in Windows itself, this method can be unsafe but in > > this case also virus scanners don't help. > > > > Just my opinion. > > Thanks. I guess a blind spot is when an installer is actually infected with > a virus and one gives the installer elevated right. That's where a virus > scanner might be handy. Though most of the time I do not use one either.
Uwe and racoon, do you recommend going forward with the release? Why was the above not a problem for rc2? Scott
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