[GRASS-windows] Trojan Horse in new wingrass-installer?

[Daniel Schuhmann]

Am 19.01.2010 16:28, schrieb Markus Neteler:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Schuhmann<D.Schuhmann at unibas.ch>  wrote:
>    
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> i tried to download the new wingrass-installer ( WinGrass64-Installer
>> (r40456)) from [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/]
>> and my Antivirus software (Avira Antivir; Virus Definitions: 19.01.2010)
>> keeps telling me, that the file contains a trojan horse called
>> TR/Dropper.Gen.
>>
>> Does anyone know this problem or is it just a false alarm?
>>      
> This is most likely a false alarm. Heise.de is monitoring the
> package with 25 virus scanners, 1-3 of them (randomly) signal
> virus alarm while the other 22-25 are happy:
> http://www.heise.de/software/download/grass_gis/45907
>
> Always at your own risk but we certainly don't intend to
> disseminate viruses.
>
> Best regards
> Markus
>    

Thank you for the really quick reply.
I didn't want to affirm, that you are disseminating viruses, but because 
I was looking around in the web before and did not find anything on this 
topic, I just wanted to ask, if there is something wrong with the file 
or not (You never can be sure ;-) ). Also if any other user has this 
'problem' it is now findable in the list.

Thanks a lot and best regards

Daniel

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