diff --git a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
index 023d2abee7..ed9bc6604e 100644
--- a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
+++ b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ public string get_executable_path(string executableName)
 
         public string get_current_assembly_path()
         {
-            return Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase.Replace("file:///", string.Empty);
+            return Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase.Replace(Platform.get_platform() == PlatformType.Windows ? "file:///" : "file://", string.Empty);
         }
 
         #endregion