When downloading Boost, McAfee warns that "In our tests, this download contained programs some people would consider adware, spyware or potentially unwanted programs." See attached screen shot. --Johan
When downloading Boost, McAfee warns that "In our tests, this download contained programs some people would consider adware, spyware or potentially unwanted programs." See attached screen shot.
Oh shucks, that's not nice. Any way to find out why it's issuing that warning? What happens if you download say the zip file instead? John.
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:43:30 +0200 Johan Råde <rade@maths.lth.se> wrote:
Oh shucks, that's not nice. Any way to find out why it's issuing that warning?
Don't know. I guess one could contact McAfee.
One of my company's programs gets false positives from antivirus programs on a regular basis (due to a unique design), and we have to contact the AV company each time to straighten it out. I don't have the address we use for McAfee handy, but if needed I could probably get it. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:43:30 +0200 Johan Råde <rade@maths.lth.se> wrote:
Oh shucks, that's not nice. Any way to find out why it's issuing that warning?
Don't know. I guess one could contact McAfee.
One of my company's programs gets false positives from antivirus programs on a regular basis (due to a unique design), and we have to contact the AV company each time to straighten it out. I don't have the address we use for McAfee handy, but if needed I could probably get it.
I have to deal with them as well. Many of my programs that mutate their runnable code during runtime get flagged as well, they make things difficult...
On 8/19/2010 12:16 PM, John Maddock wrote:
Oh shucks, that's not nice. Any way to find out why it's issuing that warning? What happens if you download say the zip file instead?
McAfee SiteAdvisor can probably be contacted at support@siteadvisor.com. (Found the adress on the web.) I could of course contact them, but maybe someone who is currently more involved with Boost should do it.
Oh shucks, that's not nice. Any way to find out why it's issuing that warning? What happens if you download say the zip file instead?
McAfee SiteAdvisor can probably be contacted at support@siteadvisor.com. (Found the adress on the web.) I could of course contact them, but maybe someone who is currently more involved with Boost should do it.
OK, I've filed a dispute with them, John.
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