UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

[Michael Wild]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 18:19 Achim Gratz wrote:

> Michael Wild writes:
> > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing
> > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction
> > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd
> > expect others to have seen this issue too.
>
> It wouldn't be the first time antivirus heuristics target UPX routines
> instead of actual malware code.  You'll have to wait for the vendor or
> your organization to whitelist the relatively new setup.exe (unless
> you're allowed to do that yourself).
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX
compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my custom
compiled versions.

Michael

>

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