[Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 83, Issue 33
Dr Engelbert Buxbaum
engelbert_buxbaum at web.de
Wed Dec 17 05:04:32 CET 2014
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:59:25 +0100
> From: Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] virus in lazarus-1.2.6-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe?
> I guess Avast.
> Here is a scan report from 20th Oct:
> Scan report of: 134052-lazarus-1.2.6-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe
> Ahnlab -
> Avast -
> AVG -
> Avira -
> Bitdefender -
> Command -
> Command (Online) -
> Eset Nod32 ERROR
> Fortinet -
> F-Prot -
> G Data -
> Ikarus -
> K7 Computing -
> Kaspersky -
> Kaspersky (Online) -
> McAfee -
> McAfee (BETA) -
> McAfee (Online) -
> McAfee GW Edition (Online) -
> Microsoft -
> Norman -
> Panda -
> Panda (Online) -
> QuickHeal -
> Rising -
> Rising (Online) -
> Sophos -
> Sophos (Online) -
> Symantec -
> Symantec (BETA) -
> ThreatTrack -
> Total Defense -
> Trend Micro -
> Trend Micro (Cons.) -
> Trend Micro (CPR) -
> VBA32 -
> VirusBuster -
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:08:19 +0100
> From: Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] virus in lazarus-1.2.6-fpc-2.6.4-win32.exe?
> To: Lazarus mailing list <lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>
> Message-ID:
> Do you mean the IDE lazarus.exe file or an executable compiled by
> Lazarus/fpc? When did the Avast message appear? When you installed
> /upgraded Lazarus or after Avast upgraded it's virus database (which
> happens quite frequently IIRC)?
>From: Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
> Yes, that's the price to pay for heuristics and less-than-exact virus
> signature determination.
> This is usually what I do when my AVG tells it has found a virus: I check
> on VirusTotal and if VirusTotal leads me to believe it is a false positive,
> I send a message to AVG asking them to check. I don't know about Avast, but
> with AVG a get an answer in a few days, and usually the answer is that it
> was indeed a false positive and that they upgraded their signature files.
> It seems Avast has a similar procedure:
> http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?subject=VIRUS-FILE . I suggest you
> send false positives to them.
Hi,
thanks for the replies. Yes, I guessed right away that this was a
false positive, just wanted to be sure. The warning came after an
update of Avast, which also points in this direction. I tried to report to Avast
(thanks for the link), but their site seems to be down. Will try again
later.
Sincerely
Engelbert
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