Hi all,
This topic comes up every couple months, dating back almost a decade or
two. If you google for "QGIS nircmd virus" you will find plenty of
discussions around this topic, like this discussion thread from 2011:
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-Qgis-user-nircmd-flagged-as-a-virus-td4102707.html
QGIS is using nircmd to manage settings in .ini setting files, or other
smaller tasks useful during installation or launching of QGIS. See
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
Unfortunately, AV software is frequently flagging legitimate software
as dangerous - they just do a really bad job! One can ask them to
investigate, then they fix it temporarily, but the next version will
bring up the same warning again ... it's kind of a tedious task trying
to fix such issues with AV software vendors. They like to scare users to
make their software seem relevant and important to their customers.
Greetings,
Andreas
Am 14.05.20 um 22:47 schrieb Christine:
Good evening,
was also worried this afternoon by the same alerts on two different machines
of my employer. Both with TREND supervision. The alerts had something to do
with contents in OSGeo4W and QGIS folders. Couldn't reach the IT colleques
so will possibly have discussions tomorrow.
Regards, Christine
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