Subj : Re: Virus/trojan, etc.
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Mon Jul 07 2014 05:49 pm
> Hello Janis,
> On 07 Jul 14 15:11, Janis Kracht wrote to All:
>> Is anyone's anti-virus software showing any PDN file infected with
>> virus or trojans?
>> I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked
>> with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false
>> positives... but still.... Just curious if it's one fellow's system or
>> what...
>> These files generally are sent here by authors or picked up from sites
>> like git-hub etc.
> I haven't added any of the new areas at this point, but nothing has been
>reported as being infected up till now from the entire filegate. I'm using the
> latest version of clamav and every time it's ran I run "freshclam" which
> downloads the latest definitions.
Thanks Nick... all I can figure is maybe some of these files are so old (like
going back to 1980's and 90's), the heuristics engine thinks they're bad? Every
seen anything like that?