Sophos will not allow me to install Anaconda for Python, it blocks pythonw.exe as ransomware

Hello Richard Ziga,

this seems to be Central. Are you the Central administrator? If so, there's an article on how to deal with false positives. Detections of pythonw.exe have also been mentioned as FP in this thread.

Christian

I am not a an administrator, just an end point trying to install Anaconda.

I am not a an administrator, just an end point trying to install Anaconda.

Hello Richard Ziga,

you'd need your site's administrator to set an exemption and to submit the sample.

Christian