Antivirus reaction to MuseScore download
After downloading your program, I scanned it with Norton antivirus, which completely removed it from my hard drive. I can't find anything about that in the forum. A friend of mine did the same with McAfee, and it also removed it. I assume that antivirus software sees something in the program as a virus and gives no option of leaving it as a trusted program. Do you have an explanation for this? I try to never load a program on my computer that I know nothing about. Would appreciate any help you can give me.
Anne
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Did you download MuseScore from the green button on http://musescore.org ?
In reply to Did you download MuseScore by [DELETED] 5
Yes, I downloaded from the green download button into a folder on my desktop for all downloads. I then scanned it with Norton anti-viruse software and it disappeared completely from my hard drive. I had a computer-tech friend of mine download and check with McAfee and the same thing happened to him. He is assuming it has a virus, although he said he believes that programs downloaded through source forge are usually safe.
My question is, why are anti-virus programs deleting it? Is there an executible file or something else that is causing the anti-virus programs to think it is a virus because it is changing system files, or is there something else going on that would make the AV programs think it is dangerous to my computer??????
Anne
In reply to Antivirus reaction to MuseScore by choirpastor
I'm the packager of the windows build and I use MuseScore daily. I uploaded the file on the sourceforge server and I'm pretty sure there is nothing harmful for your computer in MuseScore. Btw, MuseScore is open source, it means that anybody can check how it is built.
Unfortunatly Norton and McAfee are not free (nor opensource) so it's hard to know why they detect MuseScore as a virus. I will try to download a demo version and reproduce.
I checked with Avira antivirus and (obviously) find no virus. I'm also checking with VirusTotal.
MuseScore does not contain viruses or malware. It's open source, which means everyone can look into the code and see what it contains.
There are websites which scan MuseScore and they have found it clean http://musescore.musescore.qarchive.org/
No user so far has indicated a problem with MuseScore and their anti virus software. This doesn't mean your report is wrong, not at all. But you are the first one to report this actually.
MuseScore has been downloaded over half a million times and is used by many music schools world wide. I hope this is enough of a reference to indicate that MuseScore is good virus free software.
choirpastor. I do not have Norton Antivirus so I am not able to answer the questions for reporting a false positive. Are you able to answer the questions in this form:
https://submit.symantec.com/dispute/false_positive/
In reply to choirpastor. I do not have by David Bolton
Thanks, David. I never thought about reporting it to Symantec. Will post asa they respond. Appreciate everyone's help on this. Muse Score looks like the perfect notation software for what I need to do.
Anne
Thought I would add ny experience also. I purchased a new computer and the Norton also prevented me from downloading it. It is nice to know that nothing is wrong with Musescore. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it on my new Pc. Perhaps dump Norton?
Dave
In reply to Norton reaction to Musescore by brassman1946
Check the option "allow MuseScore" on your antivirus