Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav
Marius Gavrilescu <marius@ieval.ro> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>> These are real-life viruses that should not be distributed
>> using Debian's FTP server (IMHO).
>
>Even if they wre real, they would be "real-life" MS Windows viruses in
>emails in a debian package. For someone to get "infected" they would
>have
>to run MS Windows, download a debian package, unpack it, open a file
>named
>"virusN" in an email viewer and run the attached file.
>
>However, as far as I know they're not actual viruses, they're just made
>to
>look like them (i.e. they contain the signatures, but not the harmful
>code).
>
>Therefore they're harmless.
Correct.
Scott K
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