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Originally Posted by ReaderX
I have experienced the same issue here, on Windows 10 with F-Secure "Safe Online". Prompted for an update by the Calibre app - as so many times before - I downloaded calibre-5.10.1.msi from the Calibre website (guided there by the app). Whilst installing, F-Secure had branded calibre.exe as "Trojan.TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen". NB: all this happened silently on the background. I only noticed something was wrong when I tried to add a new e-book and was prevented to do so.
I almost immediately assumed we're dealing with a false positive here, but F-Secure kept on removing it, even after I excluded it (and even temporarily turned protection off altogether).
Long story short: I had to uninstall Calibre (even that was somewhat complicated since F-Secure had hijacked the calibre.exe file) and reinstall Calibre 4.17.0.
Be it what it may be, methinks it would be a good idea if Calibre and F-Secure got their heads together and straighten this issue out. The result is that Calibre 5.10.1 is unusable in this setting. And I'm guessing this will affect many more Calibre-users running F-Secure on Windows 10.
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There's no need for Kovid to get together with the F-Secure people. The problem is 100% on the F0Secure side of things.F-Secure is garbage, It need to be uninstalled/deleted and never used again. I've using Windows 10 and Windows Security and I have not once had an issue with a false positive with Calibre.
So say goodbye to F-Secure and never look back.
One other thing. If you are going to run Calibre 4 after running Calibre 5, you HAVE to install Calibre 4.23 because Calibre 5 has a new database format and Calibre 4.23 is the only Calibre 4 version that's compatible.