I was installing the 2025 version of wpilib, but my antivirus kept triggering on it, I decided to upload it to virus total and a bunch more antiviruses also detect it as “Tedy” malware. Is this just a whole bunch of false positives?
Looks like it is tripping multiple antivirus softwares. @Peter_Johnson says it should be fine. Although if this persists it might be an issue worth looking into.
Edit: it looks like this also trips with certain Mac antiviruses as well (link)
McAfee quarantines a file and aborts installation.
I still think it’s a false positive, but we’re going to pull the release until we figure out what’s causing this.
We have confirmed it was a false positive, caused by .NET compression of the installer executable. The previous installers are safe to use, but the installer images have been updated to avoid this issue.
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