From: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
To: dian_cecht@zoho.com
Cc: 25278@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25278: Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:16:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL1_imkRokm10p+3pCmO9diWvx3s99txKEWKnSGy9eCdGQF1Kw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161226191835.GA15226@khaalida>
> I'm hoping this is a false positive. I run Guix ontop of Gentoo and have also
> found the same Trojan appearing in Firefox-related files in my home directory,
> as well as in Wine directories (I didn't record the exact directories, but I
> think they were something like ../drive_c/windows/sys?????/gecko/ or something
> like that. Don't trust this 100%).
It's an anti-viruses business model to find viruses everywhere. That's
how they scare you into buying a license. They usually are overly
optimistic with declaring something a virus. Besides, what's a windows
virus going to do on a gentoo system?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-03 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-26 19:18 bug#25278: Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1 dian_cecht
[not found] ` <handler.25278.B.148277993421450.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-12-26 20:11 ` bug#25278: Acknowledgement (Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1) dian_cecht
2016-12-26 22:05 ` ng0
2016-12-26 23:57 ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-27 0:20 ` dian_cecht
[not found] ` <20161227012415.GA14310@jasmine>
2016-12-27 1:41 ` dian_cecht
2017-01-03 20:16 ` David Craven [this message]
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