Acronis distrusts \\TeX Collection 2021\texlive\tlpkg\installer\tar.exe

Richard Graham rickhg12hs at gmail.com
Wed May 26 00:17:22 CEST 2021


Interesting.  VirusTotal doesn't detect anything.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/e957225744c86bc6cb44ccf0ed060a40e9548464cb87cfbe42abac2b97bd6b67/detection

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:20 PM Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Acronis distrusts \\TeX Collection 2021\texlive\tlpkg\installer\tar.exe. It states  "Possible randomware detected.  A suspicious process is trying to modify your files".  And asks "Do you trust it ?".
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