2.3 win installer

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Fri Aug 1 22:36:42 EDT 2003


[Bob X]
>> If you have any anti-virus going...turn it off. Oh and download it
>> again.

[Jarek Zgoda]
> Does Python 2.3 have any known viral activity?

No.  The real reason is that virus scanners often interfere with the normal
operation of benign programs.  For whatever reason, installers seem
especially vulnerable to scanner bugs.  If you think your virus scanner
doesn't have bugs, you've never tried to write one on Windows <wink>.






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