Problem with antivirus

[vinic-lima]

I've been trying Positron for a few days, and while working in a Quarto markdown file I received a message from my antivirus (Norton) saying that a threat had been found and should be moved to quarantine. Since then, Positron stopped working — it is basically as if it disappeared from my computer. This was the issue:

Is it safe to restore this file?

[juliasilge]

Ah, thank you for this report! This is a false positive, as that executable is from the Posit Publisher extension. Can you open an issue over at https://github.com/posit-dev/publisher/issues to report what you are observing? They may not be able to do a lot, because often just a binary being new seems enough to trigger security software.

It is definitely safe to mark that file as a false positive, yes.