Am 19.02.2017 um 23:45 schrieb dick balaska:
> I installed your beta.3 installer.
> I got this weird Win 8 full screen dialog that said "I prevented this
> dangerous app from running". I've never seen that screen. beta.2 doesn't
> make that screen. (Perhaps some evil CRC?)
> The second time I tried, I noticed an undecorated link "More Info" where
> it let me run it anyway. (buttons are so passé)

Curiously enough, my Kaspersky anti-virus software (more specifically
its "activity monitor") also starts to get uneasy when I execute the
installer; and in contrast to Windows 8's inbuilt thing, it goes so far
as to abort the installer and roll back all its changes, /without/
giving me an opportunity to intervene.

According to VirusTotal, the majority of virus scanners finds nothing
wrong with the installer, except for three products that report
something that looks like heuristic noise.

I've notified Kaspersky of the issue; let's see what their experts make
of it.

> The installer said it was going to uninstall povray3.7 from my box. I
> wasn't sure if that was broken wording for "3.7.1-beta.2" or if it
> really meant "3.7".  So I aborted and uninstalled beta.2 first.  It
> didn't threaten to uninstall the next go around.

I think that's referring to povray 3.7.1-beta.2 ("3.7" being shorthand
for "3.7.anything" - though I definitely agree that it would be more
reassuring if it said "3.7-beta"), but I can't verify, thanks to my
virus scanner crying wolf.

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