IDP.Generic warning

Positron
1

I just installed Positron to switch from RStudio, and surprisingly, Norton is warning me about IDP.Generic in publisher.exe. I found this really surprising and suspect it's a false positive. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

2

Hmmmm, that's the binary that is included in the Posit Publisher extension (which is what adds the functionality to publish to Posit Connect Cloud, etc). Can you report what you are seeing at GitHub ยท Where software is built?

If this is interfering with your use of Positron and you don't need to publish to any of the Posit products, then you could keep that extension from activating at all using a setting like this:

{
    "extensions.allowed": {
        "posit.publisher": false,
        "*": true
    }
}
3

Thank you for the suggested solution!
Yes, I just reported this issue on GitHub as well (as a comment on the same issue already mentioned there).