I had someone email me this weekend that the fgfs-base-0.7.8.tar.gz has a virus (as detected by the McAffee vshield.)
This file has nothing executable in it, and has never lived on an MS operating system where it could have picked up a virus. But I'm not up on the latest MS stuff. Maybe one of our textures or sound files by random luck get's interpretted as a VB script and just happens to have virus properties, or some sequence of bytes in our data matches some virus signature???? Can anyone out there check this tarball and see if there is indeed some problem for windows users we need to worry about, or if this is just a 'false positive' from McAffee? McAffee, couldn't actually suggest which virus it was, just that it thought there was a virus ... But again, this is a tarball with only data files in it and no code so by all that is good and right, it can't contain a virus, but MS does a few things that are neither good nor right, so it would be nice if some MS jockey would be willing to check this out and make sure there actually is not a problem. Thanks, Curt. -- Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
