Trojan in distribution?

[Tristan Croll]

Could well be a false detection, but my university-installed McAfee scanner thinks one of the .pyd files in the daily build Windows distribution (specifically numpy/random/_generator.cp39-win_amd64.pyd) is a trojan (Artemis!174B4BC402FD) and deletes it without recourse, causing ChimeraX to fail to launch.

[Tristan Croll]

Almost certainly a false positive, and really a McAfee bug - apparently virus scanners are notorious for deciding perfectly innocent .pyd files are something nefarious. Annoying as hell, though.

[Tom Goddard]

Current ChimeraX daily builds use the standard PyPi numpy 1.21.0 distribution on Windows, Mac and Linux.

[Tristan Croll]

So it's just McAfee being ridiculous. Sigh... will see if I can tone it down.
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Subject: Re: [ChimeraX] #5173: Trojan in distribution?

#5173: Trojan in distribution?
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          Reporter:  Tristan Croll  |      Owner:  Greg Couch
              Type:  defect         |     Status:  assigned
          Priority:  blocker        |  Milestone:
         Component:  Platform       |    Version:
        Resolution:                 |   Keywords:
        Blocked By:                 |   Blocking:
Notify when closed:                 |   Platform:  Windows 10
           Project:  ChimeraX       |
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Comment (by Tom Goddard):

 Current ChimeraX daily builds use the standard PyPi numpy 1.21.0
 distribution on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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