<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:57 AM Jonathan Fine <<a href="mailto:jfine2358@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfine2358@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Franck</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for reporting this problem. I think you've done the right thing, by sending in this report. I don't run Windows so might not be able to help you directly. However the following information would be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>1. How important and urgent is it for you that you have TeX installed on your PC?</div><div>2. By what process did you obtain the files the anti-virus complained about. For example, it might be a DVD, downloaded ISO or a network install.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Did you use elevated privileges for the installation? Windows TeX Live installation does not need elevated privileges. <br></div><div><br></div><div>You may want to read <a href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-60001.4" target="_blank">Section 1.4 Security considerations</a> and proceed to install GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) (without using tlmgr). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpg4win" target="_blank">Gpg4win</a> is widely used, or <br></div><div>you can install GnuPG command-line tools for Windows from Msys2 or Cygwin64 or in a WSL linux distribution (if you have WSL you may find that TeX Live</div><div>in WSL is superior to the Windows CTAN version).<br></div><div><br></div><div>In addition to the current install-tl-windows.exe, CTAN mirrors should provide install-tl-windows.exe.sha512 and install-tl-windows.exe.sha512.asc needed to verify downloads using GnuPG.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>For those who do run Windows, here's the URL for the antivirus you're using.</div><div><a href="https://www.trendmicro.com/en_gb/forHome.html" target="_blank">https://www.trendmicro.com/en_gb/forHome.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>with kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Checking downloads with GnuPG requires non-trivial extra work, but that is the reality of the<br></div><div>internet we have today.<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div>