David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > They are simply data files. There's nothing executable in there at > > all. As far as I know, MS hasn't added VB script support to > > .tar.gz files [ yet :-) ] so I can't imagine how they could ever be > > infected with anything. > > > > I'm guessing this has to be a false positive ... > > I hate virus checkers with a passion only slightly less than the > passion with which I hate a certain e-mail program that I won't name > again. While the initial fault lay with the e-mail program, it was > all the false virus-warning e-mail messages from that idiotic software > that finally physically shut down my account. > > I imagine that they have a catch-all rule, along the lines of > > If it's not text, and it's not a binary format I recognize, then > it's a virus. >
What amazes me are the ones that actually send the intact virus attachment to the spoofed reply-to addresses...something that could easily open up companies that operate such software for civil liability. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
