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dom96 / choosenim

Tool for easily installing and managing multiple versions of the Nim programming language.
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choosenim stable fails with virus warning #263

Closed bitstormFA closed 2 years ago

bitstormFA commented 2 years ago

After downloading 0.7.5 preview from github I tried to install stable but the process was stopped with a virus warning:

.\choosenim-0.7.5-20201029-edc69bd_windows_amd64.exe stable Prompt: Can choosenim record and send anonymised telemetry data? [y/n] ... Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise ... fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Nim. ... For more details see: https://goo.gl/NzUEPf. Answer: n Downloading C compiler (Mingw64) [##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s Extracting mingw64.7z Downloading DLLs (openssl, pcre, ...) [##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s Extracting dlls.zip Downloading Nim 1.4.8 from nim-lang.org [##################################################] 100.0% 0kb/s Extracting nim-1.4.8_x64.zip Building Nim 1.4.8 Compiler: Already built Tools: Already built oserr.nim(94) raiseOSError Error: unhandled exception: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software. Additional info: "C:\Users\xxxx\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.4.8\bin\nimble.exe -v" [OSError]

dom96 commented 2 years ago

thanks for reporting, unfortunately there isn't much we can do about this. The antivirus companies just decided to mark many Nim programs as a virus for some silly reason.

dom96 commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/17820