Re: Fwd: [ dia-installer-Support Requests-1492974 ] Virus/Trojan on installer release

[Michael Inggs <mikings ebe uct ac za>]

Hi

Checked with up to date AVG, and both the Dia install and the GTK came 
out fine.

Regards

Mike

Steffen Macke wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> could some of you check the file with other virus scanners
> and report the results? Eventually directly to the tracker.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffen
>
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> From: SourceForge.net <noreply sourceforge net>
> Date: May 23, 2006 6:23 AM
> Subject: [ dia-installer-Support Requests-1492974 ] Virus/Trojan on
> installer release
> To: sdteffen gmail com
>
>
> Support Requests item #1492974, was opened at 2006-05-22 14:40
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sdteffen
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> Category: None
> Group: None
> Status: Open
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Mr. Bubble (lmesquita)
> > Assigned to: Steffen Macke (sdteffen)
> Summary: Virus/Trojan on installer release
>
> Initial Comment:
> My Avast! anti-virus program reported virus/trojan
> "Win32:Small-WF [Trj]" on the dia-setup-0.95.exe file.
> The same virus was reported on dia-setup-0.95-pre7.exe
> file.
>
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> > Comment By: Steffen Macke (sdteffen)
> Date: 2006-05-23 04:23
>
> Message:
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>
> Sorry for this.
>
> I've checked the file once again with the latest Symantec
> Antivirus and there was no virus or Trojan reported.
>
> The file was downloaded 23,000 times already and nobody else
> reported a problem. However, I will forward this to the dia
> mailing list for further comments.
>
> Could you try to verify the problem on a second system?
>
> It would be great if you could forward the dia installer to
> your Antivirus software vendor. Maybe they have to update
> their signatures.
>
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>
> Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Date: 2006-05-22 19:01
>
> Message:
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> The virus-infected file's MD5 checksum matches the checksum
> published in the release notes.
>
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