Alyza Eileen Clare B. Villanueva wrote > we were skeptical on the downloaded installer from > https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html since it was detected > as NirCmd Adware PUA by our Antivirus (Sophos Endpoint Security) during > the installation process.
Hi Alyza, I wonder how you managed to download a 3.18.0 installer from from https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html and exactly what installer you have downloaded. In fact, currently the download of the QGIS 3.18.0 standalone installers for Windows (and macOS) is disabled from the normal download page https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html and they are only available for testing purpose through the https://qgis.org/downloads/ page with the advise that is better to wait for a QGIS 3.18.1 release (that will be released the next week). It is not even possible to install QGIS 3.18.0 using the regular OSGeo4W Network Installer at the moment. Anyway, the Windows installers are digitally signed with the "The Open Source Geospatial Foundation" certificate issued by DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA and they also came with a sha256 hash so you can check for tampering or download errors. If you check the installers available on https://qgis.org/downloads/ using the VirusTotal web services www.virustotal.com, you'll find that no antivirus software on that platform is detecting QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.18.0-1-Setup-x86_64.exe as a virus or containing any PUAs. If you double check that you downloaded the installer from https://www.qgis.org/ and that it is digitally signed with corresponding hash but your antivirus detects it as NirCmd Adware PUA, then you can try to use, only for testing purpose (with the advise that is better to wait for a QGIS 3.18.1 release), a new testing MSI installer for QGIS 3.18.0 QGIS-OSGeo4W-3.18.0-1.msi wihch is also available on https://qgis.org/downloads/?C=M;O=D and is digitally signed and which doesn't use the NirCmd tool in the installer. Best regards. Andrea Giudiceandrea -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
