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Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav



On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:04:00AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
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> 
> Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> wrote:
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> >On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:54:53 +0300
> >Marius Gavrilescu <marius@ieval.ro> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 09:52:26AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> >> > Its not a warning. The download failed.
> >> 
> >> Yes, I should have said failure. Anyway, the probable cause
> >> is the existence of emails with viruses as tests in the package.
> >
> >These are real-life viruses that should not be distributed 
> >using Debian's FTP server (IMHO). 
> 
> This comes up periodically. They aren't real.

It would appear they're real enough to trigger clamav's detection, which
was the problem the OP was having.

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