[GAP Forum] Antivirus alert

[Evgeny Vdovin]

Dear participants,

My antivirus (Kaspersky) since version 4.7.8 does not allow me to install
GAP on Windows. saying that it is infected by a virus
PDM:TrojanWin32.Generic. Does anybody meet the dame problem?

All the best,

[d***@cs.ox.ac.uk]

Dear Evgeny,

Post by Evgeny Vdovin
My antivirus (Kaspersky) since version 4.7.8 does not allow me to install
GAP on Windows. saying that it is infected by a virus
PDM:TrojanWin32.Generic. Does anybody meet the dame problem?

this looks like a false alarm.
I suppose if you get GAP from the official download pages
https://www.gap-system.org/Releases/index.html
and the SHA256 of the downloads match the ones listed there,
you may be reasonably sure it's OK.

Needless to say, you might prefer building GAP from source.

Please also note that GAP uses Cygwin on Windows, and while your
antivirus is not listed here:
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda
it may still cause problems (or not).


Cheers,
Dima

Post by Evgeny Vdovin
All the best,
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