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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Love Cederström" <love.cederstrom@gmail.com>
Cc: 14098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:18:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83boa04md8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOPDfBptsJk0r5Mvy7Rh7Rzh46uttNzKx5YssNvwKR_cFyim0Q@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:39:28 +0100
> From: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom@gmail.com>
> 
> my anti-virus (AVG) software reports virus in \emavs-23.2\bin\ddeclient.exe
> The binaries came from: emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip
> 
> The report was on a "generic32.uwy" trojan.
> 
> Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus software
> wrong or do I need to worry?

Your anti-virus is wrong: I was using that binary for many months with
no problems at all.  If your AVG and its database are up-to-date, I
suggest to send the executable for analysis.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-30 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-30 19:39 bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary? Love Cederström
2013-03-30 21:16 ` Christopher Schmidt
2013-03-30 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-03 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier

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