Warning installing ForScan for Windows

[juanfolco]

When installing the last ForScan 2.3.68 for Windows, Windows 11 detects the virus threat PUA:Win32/Packunwan in the installed file: C:\Program Files (x86)\FORScan\FORScan.exe
Please, this issue needs to be reviewed.

[Don Ridley]

Read the last posts
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12478

[tractmec]

When installing the last ForScan 2.3.68 for Windows, Windows 11 detects the virus threat PUA:Win32/Packunwan in the installed file: C:\Program Files (x86)\FORScan\FORScan.exe
Please, this issue needs to be reviewed.

The Team Knows about it as per this topic:viewtopic.php?p=106691#p106691 and the thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12478

The team has related in the above thread, how many times they have reported this False Positive by Windows Defender/Security to Microsoft and apparently Microsoft is not interested in responding or working on the problem!

The work around which many members including this member, have used and the method is also related in the above thread, is to make an exception in Windows security so that the FORScan.exe download and installer is ignored, which in my experience also ignores the FORScan.exe program file!

In one of the times I have had this happen, a Search for the actual virus/Trojan returned no results!

Hope that helps?

[juanfolco]

I'm sorry, after publishing my post, I noticed an update on the topic that dated back to 2020. Thank you for your response.