Re: Troyan horse in vimrun.exe ?

2013-08-13 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On 13/08/13 13:30, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi, I've re-built Vim 7.4 (32 bit) without using upx and suddenly the antivirus software doesn't quarantine the vimrun.exe file. Good! It was a false alarm then. Unfortunately Cygwin's strip command doesn't strip much of the file size... Well, what "s

Re: Troyan horse in vimrun.exe ?

2013-08-13 Fir de Conversatie Joost Andrae
Hi, I've re-built Vim 7.4 (32 bit) without using upx and suddenly the antivirus software doesn't quarantine the vimrun.exe file. Unfortunately Cygwin's strip command doesn't strip much of the file size... > > Do you still get the same error if you _don't_ pack the executables with > upx?

Re: Troyan horse in vimrun.exe ?

2013-08-13 Fir de Conversatie Joost Andrae
Hi Tony, thank you very much for your reply. > > Do you still get the same error if you _don't_ pack the executables with > upx? Packing executables is something which can be done with any > program, good or bad, and if your antivirus software has imprecise > signatures generated from the "packi

Re: Troyan horse in vimrun.exe ?

2013-08-12 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On 12/08/13 14:04, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi, I just hg cloned the 7.4 source tree and built i with MSVC 2010 Express on my Win 7 Pro 64 bit system. After sucessfully building and copying the files into a local directory like described in INSTALLpc.txt, then packing the binaries with upx (from sf.n

Troyan horse in vimrun.exe ?

2013-08-12 Fir de Conversatie Joost Andrae
Hi, I just hg cloned the 7.4 source tree and built i with MSVC 2010 Express on my Win 7 Pro 64 bit system. After sucessfully building and copying the files into a local directory like described in INSTALLpc.txt, then packing the binaries with upx (from sf.net) and starting the vim.exe (GUI+OL