Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-10-02 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Hi Billy, I'm a n00b and I faced the tall learning curve too. I would say that things are easier than before to get started. The API and Opengrok websites are really helping: http://api.libreoffice.org/ http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/ Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation

Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-09-30 Thread Billy Charlton
Ha, thanks for the warm welcome! What a difference :-) So, my pet peeve issue is a Calc bug/feature request first filed in *2003* -- and is in the OOo bugzilla at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10864 . I actually filed one of the 12 dupes around 2006. The comment thread is pretty d

Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:52 -0700, Billy Charlton wrote: > I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping > to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some > bugfixing. Cool ! :-) what bug are you most interested in ? and/or have you grokked the easy h

Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-09-30 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:48 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > This has been discussed recently, see the thread around > > > "True Trojans or false positives ?" I'll make the problem go away, to avoid the pointless noi

Re: [Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-09-29 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 09/29/2011 10:52 PM, Billy Charlton wrote: After the clone completed, MS Security Essentials popped up with nine "severe" trojans and exploits. The affected files are .doc, .rtf, and .wmf -- which would be the places that Windows viruses and trojans would indeed hide. I have no way of knowing

[Libreoffice] 14 files in libreoffice git source flagged as trojans

2011-09-29 Thread Billy Charlton
Hello LibreOffice devs, I just did my first git clone of the core libreoffice codebase, hoping to poke around to see if I could start helping out with some bugfixing. After the clone completed, MS Security Essentials popped up with nine "severe" trojans and exploits. The affected files are .doc,