On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 00:13 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Benji Fisher wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: > > > > > > Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG > > > detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? > > > > Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you > > downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command > > did you use)? > > I suspect it's Steve Hall's build for W32, which is hosted on the > sourceforge servers nowadays (at > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866&package_id=39721 > ). If my guess is right, I would expect a false alarm, but I can't > guarantee that even Steve and SourceForge are immune to virus > infestation.
Some anti-virus software mistakenly interprets the Nullsoft installer as a virus. Just for the record, to date there have been no other reports regarding this binary (in 468 downloads), and it was created on a heavily fortified machine that reports nothing either. -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
