Trojan in install-tl-windows.exe reported by Windows Defender

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 09:33:15PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:27:26PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2023, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> > > I would rather suspect that the database of the Windows Defender was
> > > updated in the meantime. To see whether your copy is infected or not,
> > > you can downlowd the current version of the file from CTAN and compare
> > > to yours. If they are the same, it is a false positive.
> > 
> > In addition, the installers are signed with our GPG key, that allows you
> > to verify the integrity.
> 
> Meanwhile a workaround is to download and unpack the zipfile, and
> running install-tl-windows.bat.

I just tested with a freshly-updated windows 11, and had no trouble
downloading install-tl-windows.exe with firefox.

Downloading with edge, I got a warning 'Installing
install-tl-windows.exe could harm your device. Do you want to keep
it anyway? But this is 'normal'.

This does not exclude that some mirror _is_ infected.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg