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Re: Re: Virus on sed.exe


Thanks, All file look good, I submitted to a couple of online file scanner sites and they confirmed no problem. This appears to be a false positive with CA Antivirus...

BTW: After posting this message to the board I found 6 additional exe files that also caused false positives. I posted these new files in a message to the board also, however they all checked out good also..

Ed


Dave Korn wrote:
Ed Brady wrote:
I just ran a virus scan, and got a hit for sed.exe. Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA. Anyone else seen anything similar to this?

Seen a few false positives with AVG in my personal experience. Most AVs run into the odd one now and again. Some of them seem to have a fondness for Cygwin, probably because it's not part of any of their standard testing environments, so they wouldn't notice false positives in it before releasing a new .dat file.

I run scans frequently and have never had this show up before I want to
believe that this is a false positive, but want to be sure...

Here's md5sums of my versions:


1.5:
~ $ cygcheck -c sed
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
sed                  4.1.5-2        OK
~ $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe

1.7:
$ cygcheck -c sed
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
sed                  4.1.5-2        OK

$ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe

  If yours match (assuming same versions of course), you're clean.  For a
second opinion, try uploading your sed.exe at http://virusscan.jotti.org/

cheers,
DaveK


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