On 4-11-2008 Martin wrote
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> On Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:13:29 PM you wrote:

>> The scanning of the rar file with a antivirus scanner gives mostly
>> false alerts. These alerts disturbs and/or irritates users.

> I confirm that tb403418.rar gives an alarm with Antivir Premium.

>> I would prefer the signing of the beta rar files with S/MIME or PGP to
>> have the ability to check integrity of the file.
>> May be a SHA1/MD5 checksum file would be usable.
>> Adding a signature or checksum is not much work.

>> I think most of the betatesters want to know if the downloaded
>> file is not modified.

> I second this.

This morning I reported this false positive to Avira.
This is their reply: The file 'thebat.exe' has been determined to be 'FALSE
POSITIVE'. In particular this means that this file is not malicious
but a false alarm. Detection will be removed from our virus definition
file (VDF) with one of the next updates.

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 Fred                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using The Bat! 4.0.34.18 (ALPHA)



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