2 people reported

All time, since Oct 13.

McAfee blocks PowerShell launcher

“The user then gets an antivirus alert every hour, and the daemon never updates.”

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McAfee blocks Codex updater PowerShell script as fileless malware. Antivirus alerts for Real Protect-PSFL appear when the background updater pipes the installer into powershell.exe; the daemon never updates.

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Where
Windows daemon updater
Error text
Real Protect-PSFL!42DC42454F8E
Versions
0.162.1 to 0.164.0
Platforms
Windows
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

Not quite your bug?

  1. Defender flags bundled pwsh commands4 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. McAfee Real Protect blocks Codex PowerShell launcher on Windows 11 - CLI 0.164.0On GitHub#56806
  2. Windows: managed daemon updater pipes install.ps1 into powershell.exe every hour; McAfee Real Protect blocks it as fileless malwareOn GitHub#53778

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