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

[Greg Troxel]

Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
writes:

> 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 ;)

I know you are kind of kidding, but AV vendors are charging money for
products that make untrue allegations without due care.  This behavior
is not ok and they should be called on it, putting the burden of dealing
with it where it belongs instead of havng the Free Software community be
asked to do work.