bug#25278: Acknowledgement (Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1)

[dian_cecht]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 08:24:15PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 04:20:47PM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 06:57:50PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:11:13PM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > I just wanted to add that I went ahead and ran icecat-45.5.1 then 
> > > > rescanned
> > > > ~/.mozilla and nothing related to the virus popped up with the scan.
> > > 
> > > Are the files with the same SHA1 hashes still present?
> > 
> > So I rechecked the files listed in this bugreport and yes, the checksums 
> > are the
> > same. However, they no longer list as viruses according to ClamAV. I 
> > checked my
> > logs and I'm assuming that a database update fixed a false positive 
> > (freshclam
> > updates the database every 2 hours on my machine, and, afaik, the virus
> > definition was added in the last day or two).
> > 
> > So it looks to me like it was simply a false positive.
> 
> Good news!
> 
> You can close the bug by sending a message to
> <address@hidden>.

Good to know. Thanks.