We have recent reports that Windows users trying to install the latest version 1.8.6.1457 of PixInsight receive virus detection alerts with the Avast and AVG antivirus applications.
We run enterprise level virus protection solutions on all of our development and testing Windows machines. Currently we use McAfee Internet Security and McAfee LiveSafe. In addition, all of our installer packages, as well as all executable and .dll files included in these packages, are digitally signed with our Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificate. Changing any of these files in any way should of course invalidate the signatures.
So the chances are extremely low of a virus infecting our installer packages. For that to have happened, there would have to be a virus present on your system when you were downloading our installer, so that the virus could infect our files. You can always check if an installer package is valid by comparing the SHA-1 checksum computed for your downloaded file with the checksum published on our Software Distribution system. For your convenience, the SHA-1 checksums for the current 1.8.6.1457 packages are the following:
So these are just false positives. I encourage you to check the installer packages with a more reliable virus protection software.
We run enterprise level virus protection solutions on all of our development and testing Windows machines. Currently we use McAfee Internet Security and McAfee LiveSafe. In addition, all of our installer packages, as well as all executable and .dll files included in these packages, are digitally signed with our Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificate. Changing any of these files in any way should of course invalidate the signatures.
So the chances are extremely low of a virus infecting our installer packages. For that to have happened, there would have to be a virus present on your system when you were downloading our installer, so that the virus could infect our files. You can always check if an installer package is valid by comparing the SHA-1 checksum computed for your downloaded file with the checksum published on our Software Distribution system. For your convenience, the SHA-1 checksums for the current 1.8.6.1457 packages are the following:
Code:
PI-windows-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-t.exe 5e445749306bafe717ca667b2c8dbcbfd83c3e8c
PI-windows-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-c.exe 4f6b780c05daea7c046c56106ea097bbe285c3dd
PI-macosx-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-t.pkg 1fbe90db4fbe9f2ea77c2c33cdcf846064659077
PI-macosx-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-c.pkg 754c7904bc4090030d8ad2aedcbee2475f341ca4
PI-linux-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-t.tar.gz 427533fab7c955c89f9139c25dfd06372ac14e1f
PI-linux-x64-01.08.06.1457-20190122-c.tar.gz 2c0620c00a8dae84f791424a8a3ac951ecb4818d
So these are just false positives. I encourage you to check the installer packages with a more reliable virus protection software.