Re: Possible malware in one of your download packages
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 01:16:37PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:01:37 +0100, Mike Allen <mikeallen1000@gmail.com> wrote:
>...
>> I got a malware report on a Windows machine from a MS Security Essentials
>> scan (full scan)
>...
>> *Microsoft Security Essentials encountered the following error: *Error code
>> 0x800700df. The file size exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>That bit of the error may be the real cause -- if the DVD file is just
>too big for the Microsoft program, then all the rest of the output may
>well be drivel.
>
>Alternatively, it is possible that the test virus string that's
>contained in a file in the clamav package's doc directory (which is
>presumably on the DVD) could have been found, but one would hope that
>they would describe the virus found in that case.
>
>If they really are responding to their own failure to handle larger
>files by recommending deletion, then that really is pathetic.
The examples in the python-milter package look like real malware -
I've just checked. They're included deliberately for testing purposes
by the look of it.
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