It's not that I don't trust you, of course. 
But I've just wondered whether scanning downloaded installations (i.e. paf.exe files) can detect viruses within the included programs.
In other words, is it like scanning self-extracting archives?
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Can antiviruses scan .paf.exe files?
April 23, 2015 - 12:02pm
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Can antiviruses scan .paf.exe files?
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We use NSIS as a base for the PA.c Installer and specifically use LZMA compression as nearly every antivirus product has built-in support for it and it won't slow down scans as some other compression schemes can. That's also why you can open a PAF.EXE file with 7-Zip and see all the files inside.
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