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Installing Sage on Windows relies on Cygwin.
Anti-virus software can interpret Cygwin's low-level calls as malicious.
The recommendation is - download the SageMath installer for Windows - tell your anti-virus to consider it harmless - run the installer, which installs SageMath - tell your anti-virus to consider SageMath harmless - maybe tell it to consider the underlying Cygwin as harmless too - then run SageMath
Silent destruction of parts of Sage by anti-virus software has been observed and can lead to this kind of error.
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Installing Sage on Windows relies on Cygwin.
Anti-virus software can interpret Cygwin's low-level calls as malicious.
The recommendation is
- is
- download the SageMath installer for
Windows -Windows - tell your anti-virus to consider it
harmless -harmless - run the installer, which installs
SageMath -SageMath - tell your anti-virus to consider SageMath
harmless -harmless - maybe tell it to consider the underlying Cygwin as harmless
too -too - then run SageMath
Silent destruction of parts of Sage by anti-virus software has been observed and can lead to this kind of error.
