bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #55688, Installation and AVG

 
 

bug #55688: Installation and AVG

Submitter:  Charles Praplan <charprap>
Submitted:  Sun 10 Feb 2019 09:45:34 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Installation Failure
Status:  Wont Fix Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Charles Praplan Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 5.0.91 Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 10 Feb 2019 03:43:30 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This in an upstream issue, not something Octave has direct control of.  Given that we can't swap out msys2 easily, I don't think there is anything that can be done.

Rik <rik5>
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Sun 10 Feb 2019 03:10:37 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Both those files are direct from the msys2 website and I see several other complaints on google about AVG removing them, so probally not that can be done about it.

John Donoghue <lostbard>
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Sun 10 Feb 2019 09:45:34 AM UTC, original submission:  

Probably not a bug but an annoying thing during installation that I wanted to mention.

At the end of installation, when the installer ran some scripts, my antivirus (AVG) detected

Octave-5.0.91\usr\bin\gpg-agent.exe and
Octave-5.0.91\usr\bin\dirmngr.exe

and moved them to quarantine resulting in octave not working correctly.

The detection of AVG was perhaps rather based on behavior than on file content, because when scanning the files, everything was ok.

I had to reinstall Octave by adding exceptions to the antivirus!

Charles Praplan <charprap>

 

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