[Lazarus] virus note about 0.9.28.2 package?

[waldo kitty]

On 5/27/2010 13:29, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:
> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>> Does someone know, if any virus scanner does not like the
>> lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32.exe
>>
> On freepascal.ru forum, there are at least two messages, one mentioning
> this file and Kaspersky tool, another one mentioning FPC installer and
> Nod32 tool.

this is generally due to crappy signatures... i have stuff that gets detected as 
virus when it is simply a line in an email with no other code... this is 
especially bad on the security (IDS/IPS) lists i participate in...

> In general, once any antivirus detects some file, you can be sure that
> within a couple of weeks every other antivirus will start detecting that
> file, too.

monkey see, monkey do :?