The installer won't try to bundle any software with CE's installation. Before launching the installer, disconnect your internet. Initially I was at a loss, but found out there's an easy workaround.
As of version 7.0 (released 08/20/19), it looks like the installer no longer provides that option. In the past, we had the ability to opt out of bundled software. That should all hopefully clear up any conflation and confusion surrounding CE and anti-virus implementations.įigured I'd chime in here with a useful tidbit for anyone Googling about this. There's no telling what might be globbed into those, so unless you REALLY know/trust the source, it's proooobably best to obtain CE from an official avenue like the ones above or. It's worth noting that there are a lot of avenues where CE is provided, whether for UCE compilations (basically, custom builds of CE with identifiable information stripped from the binary, thus avoiding simple CE detection implementations in certain games, etc.) or otherwise. Or, you can contribute to the CE Patreon, where a custom build of CE is provided which does not contain the third party installer. You can go compile your own build independent of the third party installer if you so choose. CE can scan/alter memory, bypass anti-debugging implementations, perform kernel mode shenanigans, and much, much, much more.ĬE is open source. That appears especially so if the context of use case isn't present (i.e., a virus scanner looks purely at the binary without knowing its purpose, user base, etc.). Nor does that third party installer do CE any favors with certain anti-virus programs.Īs others have mentioned, CE is used to do things that are very virus-like.
That kind of stuff makes people think they really disagreed to something but it installed anyway (even if it really was their fault). Of course one should always be extremely vigilent when installing software, but that kind of trickery from a third party certainly doesn't help CE's case. For instance, two check boxes with Agree and Disagree, but the Agree one says something like, "I agree to the terms herein" in, say, size 10 font, but beneath it in size 6 font, it says, "and do not want to install". Even some normally astute users have been tricked into installing third party stuff by the way the EULA for them is written/read. Since I started using CE ~7 years ago, there have been a couple of nasty deliverables I've seen the community noting as being downloaded by that third party installer. Yes, the installer contains third party bundleware that hasn't always been on the up 'n up. u/Sn34kyMofo wrote a good post for the long answer: This is pretty much the most common question we get, and the short answer is no but be careful.
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