Re: [Gimp-user] download difficulties

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Lee ann Hargrave
<leeannhargrave yahoo com> wrote:
> Just so you understand, I am also getting virus notifications when downloading from the GIMP site as well.  
> I cannot get a clean download even from there.,  Can you send me a file that is not infected?

Well obviously the binary you get from the official website
(http://gimp.org) is supposedly NOT infected. I mean, that's so
obvious that I feel stupid just saying it (well, after, that's also a
question of trust. But if you don't trust the people behind GIMP,
don't ever download it, whatever the download source is).
I'm not the one who makes these builds, and I don't use them (since I
make my own builds), but I would trust them if I need.

I know we already had other reports of people telling us some
antivirus software would mistakenly flag the official GIMP binary as a
virus. We cannot do anything else about this than reporting this false
positive upstream, to the antivirus editor, for them to update their
virus database. Could you tell us what is this antivirus software so
that we try and contact them?

As for you, in the meantime, your solution is to bypass the antivirus
detection (if possible. I guess there must be a checkbox or button for
this?). That's a leap of faith, but you are already doing one by
trusting some antivirus software to tell you what is right and wrong,
based on some unknown (apparently problematic, in my opinion)
algorithm or database. Or blindly trust this software, thus simply
don't use GIMP, and search for an alternative Imagine
manipulation/drawing software.
That's up to you to do what you think is right. But there are no magic
solutions other than these two possibilities (well, actually a third
one is to build yourself from source, if you know how to do so).
Have fun!

Jehan

> Lee Ann
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 8/23/14, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] download difficulties
>  To: "Lee ann Hargrave" <leeannhargrave yahoo com>
>  Cc: "gimp-user-list gnome org" <gimp-user-list gnome org>
>  Date: Saturday, August 23, 2014, 4:11 AM
>
>  Hi,
>
>  On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Lee ann
>  Hargrave
>  <leeannhargrave yahoo com>
>  wrote:
>  > I have tried numerous sites to
>  download GIMP which I used on my old computer and would like
>  to download onto my new one.  Unfortunately, each time I
>  tried to download a file, my virus software blocks it saying
>  that it contains viruses.  If you are aware of this
>  problem, is there a site where this can be obtained without
>  getting infected?
>
>  Well the
>  best solution is to download GIMP from the official
>  website,
>  since other websites are not
>  necessarily trusted and can sometimes be
>  actual malware: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
>
>  Note that I don't say that
>  all third-party builds are untrustable.
>  Some
>  are well known and actually legit. But when you don't
>  really know
>  what's out there, the safest
>  solution is to download from the official
>  GIMP website. :-)
>
>  Have fun with GIMP!
>
>  Jehan
>
>  >
>  > Lee Ann Hargrave
>  >
>  (505) 467-9376
>  >
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