* bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
@ 2013-03-30 19:39 Love Cederström
2013-03-30 21:16 ` Christopher Schmidt
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From: Love Cederström @ 2013-03-30 19:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 14098
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Hi,
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?
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* bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
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
2013-04-03 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Christopher Schmidt @ 2013-03-30 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 14098
Love Cederström <love.cederstrom@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
Heuristic detection of computer viruses is doomed to fail, do not rely
on it at all.
Christopher
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* bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
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
2013-04-03 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2013-03-30 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Love Cederström; +Cc: 14098
> 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.
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* bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
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
@ 2013-04-03 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-04-03 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Love Cederström; +Cc: 14098
> Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus software
> wrong or do I need to worry?
You can generally assume that all anti-virus software are wrong.
About pretty much everything they say.
Stefan
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