Charlie, I ran the installer through VirusTotal, and it looks like you have a false positive (as VirusTotal came back with 0/66 alerts for a virus):
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/05f25e5efce6fe899837a12d6b57b76ce15538cc51b9bd8098d3c0270a3e4736/detection Bill's suggestion of reporting it to AVG for analysis is probably best. 73, -Joe KM4SQS On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:34 PM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: > On 17/09/2018 20:24, Charles Otnott via wsjt-devel wrote: > > I have detected a bug installing > > the v2.0-rc1 software. > > > > After successful downloading of the > > v2.0-rc1 software the following problem > > was encountered: > > > > Problem: Firewall/virus software AVG free > > version reports v2.0-rc1 is a virus and > > will not allow installation. > > > > Solution: Halted AVG free version. The > > installation of v2.0-rc1 continued without > > incident. Restarted computer to allow > > AVG free edition to resume protection. > > Hi Charles, > > that is not a defect in the WSJT-X installer or software. AV products > use many generic heuristics to flag potential malware, they normally > have Gen or Generic in the so-called virus name. This is certainly a > false positive and should be reported to AVG so they can update their > malware signatures. There's nothing we can do about these annoying > false-positives I'm afraid, it is the lot of low volume non-commercial > software providers to suffer from these false accusations. > > You should be able to flag the installer as safe (white list) with your > AV software rather than completely disabling it during the install. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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