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

[Glynn Clements]

Daniel Schuhmann wrote:

> 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?

I'd assume that it's false. The ".gen" suffix indicates a generic
(heuristic) detection routine, and five minutes Googling seems to
suggest that Avira will label pretty much anything as TR/Dropper.Gen.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>