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General discussion

NSIS installer and Mcafee

Oct 28, 2014 2:15AM PDT

Discussion is locked

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Yup.
Oct 28, 2014 2:41AM PDT

Try a simple hello world in C++ and almost all virus scanners may flag that. Talk about overly protective.
Bob

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Official NSIS Installer
Oct 29, 2014 3:38AM PDT

Yeah but I am talking about official nsis installer and it's getting detected as a threat only in mcafee. other virus guards are fine. Also found a similar thread on mcafee community that discusses the same issue https://community.mcafee.com/message/355351#355351

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Gotta love McAfee.
Oct 29, 2014 3:40AM PDT

I'm unsure what the question is now. You asked if I've seen it and my answer is yes.
Bob

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Thanks for the answer
Oct 30, 2014 2:31AM PDT

I was looking for more people who face the same problem with NSIS and looking to report false positive. Whoever interested could simply do so.

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What I didn't do and problably have should have done.
Oct 30, 2014 2:41AM PDT
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Thanks
Oct 31, 2014 12:55AM PDT

I have taken a look at the thread link you posted. I will create a new discussion there as well hopefully Mcafee will take an action soon, we have submitted the false positive report as well.

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The thing is
Oct 31, 2014 1:02AM PDT

This looks to be a McAfee issue and not a NSIS issue at all.

Do you see a day where any app that isn't from Microsoft, Apple, Google get branded as a possible threat?
Bob

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Mcafee is to blame
Oct 31, 2014 1:05AM PDT

Yes this is no issue of NSIS. Mcafee hasn't taken an action about this for years yet other VAs have and white listed.

Anyhoo thank you for your replies on this subject

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exactly
Nov 2, 2014 1:23AM PDT

This issue has been there for a long time and I don't know why mcafee is very silent about this.

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Good news
Nov 5, 2014 2:28AM PST

Good news that Mcafee has finally white listed official NSIS installer but still the problem persists with many programs that use nsis installer.

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The thing is, some of the members are spamming this.
Nov 5, 2014 2:33AM PST

The IP check of the members here and more checks seems this is just spamming in various places for reasons they may only know.

You've lost a lot of cred here.
Bob