From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: bug#25278: Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:16:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20161226191835.GA15226@khaalida> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOVW6-00014m-Dm for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:17:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOVW2-0005xL-Im for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:17:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cOVW2-0005xH-A2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:17:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cOVW2-0001Id-4e for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:17:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20161226191835.GA15226@khaalida> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: dian_cecht@zoho.com Cc: 25278@debbugs.gnu.org > 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?