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A wide-spread [[malware]] company named itself NSIS Media. NSIS Media and NSIS are not related by anything but name. A few users{{Who|date=July 2009}} incorrectly allege that every installer built with NSIS contains this malware.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} Choosing a reliable download source, as with everything downloaded from the Internet, should be done to avoid this malware.
Several antivirus companies have labeled plugins such as NSISdl, which provides HTTP downloading functionality, as trojans.<ref>[http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=189414 WINAMP.COM | Forums - nsisdl.dll contains Download.Trojan]</ref> This is also incorrect. While NSIS is a scriptable system and thus could be used to create malware, that is not its primary purpose and this condition in fact applies to
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