RE: [Boston.pm] win32::ole giving false positive.

[Tolkin, Steve]

This is just a FAQ file, in HTML.  
Can you simply delete it from your system?
Or maybe insert some junk characters (spaces, dashes, underscores etc.)
into the "infected"  text e.g. change to 
n-ew('O-utlook.A-pplication',  etc.

Hopefully helpfully yours, 
Steve 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Gwynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Boston.pm] win32::ole giving false positive.


I'm using win32::ole to open an excel spreadsheet.  The code used to work,
but then they installed antivirus software on the server (windows NT Server,
Norton Antivirus), and I think that's why my code doesn't work anymore.
 
I did a little searching, and found this from
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/ActivePerl/RELEASE.html
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/ActivePerl/RELEASE.html
> 
 
<snip>
Norton AntiVirus 2000 detects VBS.NewLove.A in the file
ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html. 

Workaround

This is a false positive by Norton AntiVirus. ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html has
been examined by hand, and it is likely that the following example code is
what causes the false report.

   <BLOCKQUOTE>
    <P><CODE>use strict;<BR>
      use Win32::OLE;<BR>
      use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Outlook';<BR>
      <BR>
      my $Outlook = Win32::OLE-&gt;new('Outlook.Application', 'Quit');<BR>
      my $ol = Win32::OLE::Const-&gt;Load($Outlook);<BR>
      <BR>
      my $namespace = $Outlook-&gt;GetNamespace(&quot;MAPI&quot;);<BR>
      my $Folder = $namespace-&gt;GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox);<BR>
      my $NewFolder =
$Folder-&gt;Folders-&gt;Add(&quot;Test1&quot;);</CODE></P>
    </BLOCKQUOTE>

This can be tested by removing the above code from the
ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html file and rescanning with Norton AntiVirus. Norton
AntiVirus will no longer detect VBS.NewLove.A.

Symantec has been notified of this issue.

</snip>

So, by 'workaround', the mean brick wall?  Is there a way around this?