Hi ,
I am running McAfee Site advisor, and when I go to download the new 1.3.9e version from the link in this forum(Sourceforge) McAfee picks this up as a potentially dangerous download. I didn't get this warning when I downloaded 1.3.9d, so I am wondering if there is a problem?
Just wanting to check why this is picking this up.
Thanks,
Jeff
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2 Aug 2010, 06:11 PM #1
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Sourceforge 1.3.9e download warning
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Re: Sourceforge 1.3.9e download warning
The Zen Cart download is safe. McAfee's alert is false.
McAfee has flagged 2 downloads from some other completely unrelated project as potential spyware, and thus are raising alerts for *everyone* downloading anything from SourceForge. We reported the issue to them several weeks ago, and their was response was "it may take 8 weeks for us to update it". Makes me re-consider why anyone would use McAfee products..
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2 Aug 2010, 06:16 PM #3
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Re: Sourceforge 1.3.9e download warning
It's a problem that McAfee is having when downloading several sourceforge-hosted products. If you scan the zip after it's been downloaded, McAfee will confirm that it's clean.
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2 Aug 2010, 06:19 PM #4
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Re: Sourceforge 1.3.9e download warning
Thanks to both of you for your replies! I appreciate it!
Jeff
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2 Aug 2010, 07:49 PM #5
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Re: Sourceforge 1.3.9e download warning
Ironic in a way - because when you download Flash, there's a pre-checked box that downloads scumware from McAfee that constantly badgers you to buy their product. I pressed return too quickly one day and accidentally downloaded this
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