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    Peter McFarland
    last edited by Apr 17, 2023, 6:37 PM

    FYI - Avast thinks the uninstaller.exe hosts malware.
    NSIS_HacktoolX-gen_AvasMalwareDetection.png

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      Andrew-Non @Peter McFarland
      last edited by Apr 18, 2023, 8:03 PM

      @Peter-McFarland Same.

      What gives?

      avast.png

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        PeterJones @Andrew-Non
        last edited by Apr 18, 2023, 8:22 PM

        @Andrew-Non said in NSIS:HacktoolX-gen Malware/Avast:

        What gives?

        The “malware scanners” often confuse the NSIS installer/uninstaller signatures as being malware, because some malware uses NSIS installer/uninstaller. When enough users vote the notepad++ executable or installer/uninstaller safe, such warnings usually go away.

        (That’s one of my biggest frustrations with such anti-malware ratings: they give an application a black mark without investigating first. Which makes them useless, because then people just learn to ignore their warnings since they give so many false positives)

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