We now have a straightforward way for people to get started with the Particle command-line interface (CLI) on Windows. It's a simple installer that installs the CLI and the drivers needed. Once installed the Particle CLI will keep itself auto-updated. Install Particle CLI through here Note: If y…

That output looks rather normal to me :wink: What does particle --version give you? Maybe you want to try npm uninstall -g particle-cli and then try to install again.

Particle --version gives 1.16.0 npm uninstall -g particle-cli gives unbuild particle-cli@1.17.0 If I try install I get exactly the same as I have shared above!

That looks as if you have (had) got two instances of CLI and possibly also of node/npm installed. When you did particle --version the 1.16.0 instance was found first but the npm instance you were executing the uninstall command with obviously rather got 1.17.0 first to remove. What happens when yo…

Running uninstall twice takes away the 1.17.0 version only and leaves the 1.16.0 version. I can see copies in appdata\Local and appdata\Roaming. Can I just delete these files and start again? Update: I removed the local version of the files and 1.17.0 was exposed and working! Thanks for the tip a…

This is an FYI: Norton Internet Security deletes ParticleCLIsetup from my Windows computer when I download it. [image]

I submitted this as a false positive detection but there’s no indication of how long correction would take.

i went to the website of norton to investigate and found this 7 year old write up . https://community.norton.com/en/forums/clarification-wsreputation1-detection it seems like a bogus explanation and very poor way to treat companies doing legitimate business.

It should be fixed now. Norton accepted the whitelisting so the Windows CLI installer should not be flagged as a virus now.

FYI: It looks like this problem is back …

Particle CLI Installer (Windows)

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nrobinson2000 May 2, 2017, 9:31pm 23

Damn paranoid Norton antivirus…

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