On 2018-02-28 17:50, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
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?
My guess is that I did not have the virus scanner activated when
installing rc2 but can't say for sure.
Daniel
