There’ no way to install it with Windows 10.
The only running version is:
Version:4.0.0-rc-2-stable , release build
wx Widgets 3.0.3 Unicode and Boost 1.57.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit
other builds are terminated with incompatible APP Errors
Hola, he instalado kicat pero el avast me lo elimina y me dice que tiene un virus:
El instalador es kicad-product-4.0.1-i686.exe descargado de https://kicad.org/
Archivo infectado: Kicad.exe
Ubicación del virus: C:\Program Files\KiCad\bin
Virus: FileRepMalware
Gracias por sus respuestas
Why is there no way to install it? And you are not just talking about eh window smartscreen filter thingie?
Nope was all disabled…
That simply can’t be right, otherwise you should be able to install it.
Don’t be dishonest, it doesn’t have “malicious gifts”, your virus scanner is just crappy. Use a good one and stop blaming anyone but the virus scanner developers for false positives.
Even a very quick search would have turned up this, which points to the exact file your scanner flagged and explains why it turns up a false positive.
A virus scanner is a tool, not magic. It doesn’t tell you when things are or aren’t viruses, it tells you when it thinks they might or might not be. It’s your job to follow up on that.
Perhaps you should be contacting the virus scanner vendor, pointing out that bug report to them, and telling them they should be whitelisting that file.
Hello,
it were my words: check yout python developing environment,
your source tells these phrase:
“I suggest that we remove the file from hg and create it on the fly during tests runs.”
As these file was removed in 2013 from the python environment, why it is still in kiCAD?
Pls take care, that SEVERAL different antivirus-programs in phalanx complain about this file.
have a nice Xmas 
@BoldBadger, I still don’t get this. There is no tarball for windows, there is an installer exe. And I don’t see that path anywhere in the files installed. What exactly are you installing?
Seriously? Are you going to be spreading lies?
KiCad 4.0 does NOT ship with the file nor has it ever. The only way you would have that file is if you downloaded kicad from some third party site.
/edit because someone was upset over a slightly mean word
Could you please explain, carefully, exactly, and step-by-step, how you are downloading KiCad, installing KiCad, and checking for the presence of the testbz2_bigmem.bz2 file? Please delete the original first, just to make sure we’re not looking at something that’s been on your system for a while.
To add another data point, I just cloned a fresh 64-bit Windows 7 VM, with absolutely nothing in it other than stock Windows 7 Ultimate, some updates, Chromium and VirtualBox Guest Additions. Downloaded the latest KiCad release kicad-product-4.0.1-x86_64.exe directly from kicad.org. Installed it, started pcbnew and ran a few commands in the Python console just to make sure Python had been run before. Then scanned the entire disk for any file whose name contained “testbz2”.
Nada.
But You can read, I’m not alone with these Problems!
Look at this:
I’m working very carefully with my PC, with very low chance of malware in it.
Please don’t think, I ignore your efforts to fix it.
The real problem is, I have to work with an unstable version
(kicad-product-r6403.415c722-x86_64.exe) this is the only version insallable on Win10.
many thanks
BoldBadger
I downloaded the Windows installation file from kicad.org today (07 March 2016) and Windows says that the signature is invalid and provides a delete button. Is the file safe to execute, or has it been compromised in some way?
Thanks for any advice, I will stay with the 2013 version for today.
Dave
32 or 64 bit?
I have the 64 bit from 1/3/2016 and no alarms
It’s MD5 checksum is 76479D6453C56BE3F384FBBFEC6F7A49
I downloaded the 64-bit version. I will try again today and compare to your check value.
Thanks
Dave Graham
I suppose the developers should ideally put md5 or sha checksums up on the download page, as dns redirection could take you to a tainted installer.
However, I cannot see that a large file size installer for a niche EDA tool is an obvious target for malware delivery
If the installer can be redirected or MITM’ed then so can a checksum. The installer is signed, currently with a certificate that is identified by “Open Source Developer, Marek Roszko”.
MITM or server compromise are possible, in this case the KiCad web pages and the download are from the same IP address, so likely the same server. Changing the checksums and forging the signature are all additional effort for a malware insertion attempt. Fortunately KiCad won’t be as attractive to the blackhats as something like VLC
You cannot assert that without qualification. If you were to assume that it was downloaded directly from Kicad, and that the file was not modified in any way (as verified by signature and checksum) then it is more than probably okay. But for the average user, using a Windows environment, the only thing “perfectly safe” is leaving the cpu in the box.
Could you tell me more about it? Is it the same as this .ccc file extension virus? Each of my files has this ending and I can’t open any of them!