Re: Avira Antivir: emacs-24 binaries contain viruses ?

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Thu, Feb 02 2012,Chong Yidong wrote:

> Martin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>     Avira Antivir Professional 10.2.0.1060  28.09.2011
>>     Suchengine                 8.02.08.44   26.01.2012
>>     Virendefinitionsdatei      7.11.22.14   01.02.2012
>>
>> tells me, that the latest emacs-24 pretest and snapshot binaries contain
>> viruses.
>>
>>     addpm.exe                TR/Siscos.iic
>>     cmdproxy.exe     TR/Siscos.iid
>>     ddeclient.exe    TR/Siscos.iie
>>
>> Is it true or false positive.
>
> Christoph Scholtes, who compiled the binaries, is currently looking into
> this.  In the meantime, I've pulled the 23.4 binaries off the FTP site,
> just to be safe.
>
> Emacs had problems being incorrectly flagged by anti-virus software
> before.  We'll see whether this is the same situation.
>
>

err...Symantec Antivirus didn't flag anything and I do run with the
latest virus definition files.  I took the Emacs binaries off the
mirror site on the 1st.

 sivaram
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