Note: I submitted the Burn engine to the major AV vendors about a year ago so they could avoid false positives. Submitting your own Bundle to the AV vendors may help them better recognize Burn as non-malware.
_______________________________________________________________ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 7:41 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Antivirus is blocking execution of standard bootstrapper application About a year ago, while using Wix 3.8 RTM and VS2010, building the default bootstrapper project with minimal changes to define the manufacture and add a MsiPackage to the chain, resulted in the Bundle.exe being deleted within seconds of being compiled by Samantec Endpoint Connection. A False-positive report was filed. When code signing was added to the Bundle.exe the problem was avoided. I do not recall the Samantec Trojan..... name ot the Samantec URL which explained that the heuristics used is more likely to consider a file which is not Authenticode Signed as malware. (And of course they would be happy for customers to buy a certificate from Samantec-Verisign, rather than a competitor). Other anti-virus programs also use heuristics which are more likely to consider an unsigned file as malware. As others have pointed out, not signing a bundle is only one possible reason for it to be flagged as malware. http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-bootstrapper-Application-Installation-td7583982.html#a7586959 I am currently using Wix 3.9, VS2013, and an updated version of Samantec Endpoint Protection. When I build the default bootstrapper project, so far SEP has not deleted the output bundle.exe. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Antivirus-is-blocking-execution-of-standard-bootstrapper-application-tp7596457p7596482.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
