bug#10692: 23.4; On MS-Windows: digest-doc.exe is now 50kb in stead of 25kb in 23.3 and triggers a virus warning whereas the version in 23.3 does not

bug#10692: 23.4; On MS-Windows: digest-doc.exe is now 50kb in stead of 25kb in 23.3 and triggers a virus warning whereas the version in 23.3 does not

[Albert]

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I checked on virustotal: 8 out of 43 say the file has a problem. This is
not a lot: either the problem is relatively new or it isn't a
problem. But in combination with the size change, I thought I should
mention it.

Albert.

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bug#10692: 23.4; On MS-Windows: digest-doc.exe is now 50kb in stead of 25kb in 23.3 and triggers a virus warning whereas the version in 23.3 does not

[Christoph Scholtes]

On 2/1/2012 2:43 PM, Albert wrote:
> I checked on virustotal: 8 out of 43 say the file has a problem. This is
> not a lot: either the problem is relatively new or it isn't a
> problem. But in combination with the size change, I thought I should
> mention it.

I will check this out on my system. Thanks for the report.


Christoph

bug#10692: 23.4; On MS-Windows: digest-doc.exe is now 50kb in stead of 25kb in 23.3 and triggers a virus warning whereas the version in 23.3 does not

[Christoph Scholtes]

On 2/1/2012 10:17 PM, Christoph Scholtes wrote:
> On 2/1/2012 2:43 PM, Albert wrote:
>> I checked on virustotal: 8 out of 43 say the file has a problem. This is
>> not a lot: either the problem is relatively new or it isn't a
>> problem. But in combination with the size change, I thought I should
>> mention it.
>
> I will check this out on my system. Thanks for the report.

This turned out to be a false alarm caused by a certain MinGW gcc 
compiler version used to compile the binaries. I recompiled the binaries 
with gcc 4.4.0 and the scanner does not alert anymore.

The new binaries will be uploaded to the ftp site in the near future.

I am closing this report.

Christoph

bug#10692: 23.4; On MS-Windows: digest-doc.exe is now 50kb in stead of 25kb in 23.3 and triggers a virus warning whereas the version in 23.3 does not

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> I checked on virustotal: 8 out of 43 say the file has a problem. This is
>>> not a lot: either the problem is relatively new or it isn't a
>>> problem. But in combination with the size change, I thought I should
>>> mention it.
>> I will check this out on my system. Thanks for the report.
> This turned out to be a false alarm caused by a certain MinGW gcc compiler
> version used to compile the binaries.

Ahem, no: this was caused by overly general patterns in the
virus scanner.  MinGW gcc had nothing to do with it.


        Stefan