Mcafee no sense scan of empty installer

Mahesh Gam

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Its really hard to understand the logic behind Mcafee Labs sometimes. nsis installer is something every developer is familiar with. I use nsis for lot of my programs but all the time mcafee tends to give me all these stupid alerts. Even an empty installer is being detected as a threat. Here is a analysis of an empty pack

virustotal scan

You can clearly see Mcafee acts so weird and I really hope there are others who faced the same problem and willing to complain about this.
 

Brunostako

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McAfee is useless.

There are better options. I use Panda Cloud Antivirus Free, it's light, has good and simple features and it's free.

Others will tell you their own experiences with others AV softwares.
 

Mahesh Gam

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In this case, I have to agree with you. However the problem is not about the virus guard itself but most programs we develop are using nsis installer and we can't ask customers to change their antivirus guards to run our programs. However it was really nice to find a related forum thread on community of Mcafee.https://community.mcafee.com/message/355351#355351

I really hope they will take a proper action soon