[QGIS-Developer] Potential Security Issue with latest OSGeo4W release

Jürgen E. Fischer jef at norbit.de
Thu Nov 28 08:26:17 PST 2024


Hi Greg,

On Thu, 28. Nov 2024 at 08:31:38 -0500, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> C Hamilton via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
> 
> > I just installed the latest QGIS versions of the OSGeo4W installer. I
> > received a warning saying, "We moved libgrass_parson.8.4.dll to your
> > Quarantine because it was infected with Win64:Evo-gen[Trj]"
> 
> In general, I think people should file a support issue with their
> antivirus provider, asking to fix or to really provide evidence.  There
> is a long history of negligent accusations from antivirus.

Better yet: people could just stop to produce malicious code.

But probably neither will happen ;)


Jürgen

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