Virus on sed.exe

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Thu Jul 9 19:57:00 GMT 2009


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?
>>     
>   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/
>
>   

Also Virustotal reports only one (false!?) positive:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/9fa2b3703fb16d269c38531892d5b7aab38a27fa40af539aeb2e4a323306a9e7-1247163897


-- 
Regards,
Christian Franke


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