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Bug#442225: marked as done (installer triggers anti-virus detection)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:45:51 +0200
with message-id <20070914104551.GC13295@thorin>
and subject line Bug#442225: installer triggers anti-virus detection
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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Package: win32-loader
Version: 0.6.0~pre3

Hi,
when running the win32-loader installer on win2000, Trend Micro OfficeScan 7.3
stops the installation due to a virus detection. The attached screenshots show
the warning message of the virus detection (including the "dangerous" dll file)
and the resulting error message of the installer after being stopped by the
anti-virus program.

this could be very scary for a lot of people :(

thanks for the great work!

Lars

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:51:22AM +0200, Lars wrote:
> Package: win32-loader
> Version: 0.6.0~pre3
> 
> Hi,
> when running the win32-loader installer on win2000, Trend Micro OfficeScan 7.3
> stops the installation due to a virus detection. The attached screenshots show
> the warning message of the virus detection (including the "dangerous" dll file)
> and the resulting error message of the installer after being stopped by the
> anti-virus program.
> 
> this could be very scary for a lot of people :(

Hi,

Thank you for your report, but this is not a bug in win32-loader.  The file
that triggers this is in fact in nsis, but it's not a bug in nsis either.

These so-called anti-virus programs generally work by heuristics, and sometimes
miss-identify legitimitate code as if it were a virus.  You should contact the
authors of Trend Micro OfficeScan explaining them they missidentified nsisdl
(an nsis component) as a virus.

-- 
Robert Millan

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