Avira Antivirus Pro finds virus during installation of Syncfusion Essential Studio

[Helmut Steiner]

During the installation of Essential Studio a virus warning of Avira Antivirus Pro pops up. If ignored once the virus warning comes up again during start up of Visual Studio 2013.

File:
AppData\Local\Syncfusion\EssentialStudio\12.4.0.24\Silverlight\SilverlightSampleBrowser.Web\BuildSilverlightSB.exe
Virus Found:

TR/Rogue.282155

Attachment: SyncFusionVirusWarning_11749a1.zip

[Kathiresan Subramaniam]

Hi Helmut,

We regret for the inconvenience caused.

We would like to let you know that reported ‘Virus found’ issue has occurred due to the ‘BuildSilverlightSB.exe’ file was not signed. We have now signed the ‘BuildSilverlightSB.exe’ file to resolve the reported issue.

Please follow the below steps to replace the signed ‘BuildSilverlightSB.exe’ file in installed location.

1. Download the BuildSilverlightSB.zip file from the below link.

BuildSilverlightSB.zip

2. Extract the zip file.

3. Copy the BuildSilverlightSB.exe file and replace in below mentioned location.

Location: {Drive:}\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Syncfusion\EssentialStudio\{Version}\Silverlight\SilverlightSampleBrowser.Web\

Example: C:\Users\labuser\AppData\Local\Syncfusion\EssentialStudio\12.4.0.24\Silverlight\SilverlightSampleBrowser.Web\

Note: We will integrate this fix in the upcoming 2015 Volume 1 release.

Please let us know if you have any queries.

Regards,
Kathiresan S.

[Helmut Steiner]

Thanks for the quick fix!

[Kathiresan Subramaniam]

Hi Helmut,

Thanks for the response.

Please let us any if you have any other concerns.

Regards,
Kathiresan S.