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Re: Windows 10 reports stable 4.0.1 installer as malware.

 

On 2/17/2016 2:09 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 17.02.2016 19:55, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 
>> Is there any way
>> to confirm that the installer on the website hasn't been compromised?
> 
> That is a known problem with the heuristic detection: it triggers often
> on JIT compilers, so it is possible that we are getting false alarms here.

I figured it was a false alarm but I want to give users some reassurance
that's all that it is.

> 
>> Perhaps an md5sum of the original installer binary.  Can someone who has
>> access to the packager builder please look into this for me.
> 
> I'm extending the build script so the SHA sums of the generated files
> are recorded in the build log, then we can check them easily.

Please let me know when the SHA sums have been generated and where I can
download them to compare against the binary I downloaded from the website.

> 
>    Simon
> 
> 
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