Trojan in install-tl-windows.exe reported by Windows Defender
Siep Kroonenberg
siepo at bitmuis.nl
Fri Jun 16 21:33:15 CEST 2023
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:27:26PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> > I would rather suspect that the database of the Windows Defender was
> > updated in the meantime. To see whether your copy is infected or not,
> > you can downlowd the current version of the file from CTAN and compare
> > to yours. If they are the same, it is a false positive.
>
> In addition, the installers are signed with our GPG key, that allows you
> to verify the integrity.
Meanwhile a workaround is to download and unpack the zipfile, and
running install-tl-windows.bat.
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Siep Kroonenberg
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