Re: Adware.BargainBuddy

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin swing be>]

Antonio Coralles wrote:

>> Antonio Coralles wrote:
>> > Can sombody explain to me why norton antivirus 2005 detects
>> > Adware.BargainBuddy in the gtkmm-2.4.8 installer for windows ?

> Sorry for the delayed answer:
> Here are the filenames and md5 sums:
> 
> gtkmm-runtime-2.4.8-2.exe                 5be4f79dcb5202b83001c730ef749911
> gtkmm-uninst.exe                                
> 543298bc693a1a62a87445dceb05ad57
> gtkmm-devel-3.4.8-2.exe                     
> a1da65898467d74bdc8a4c9bdf5486c2

Checksums are OK.

> I think I got these files from
> http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ , but as it is some time
> ago I loaded them down, this is not completley sure. Guess my windows
> installation is somehow infected or NAV is just too nervous - adaware
> doesn't complain ...

Well, it seems to be related to the NSIS installer, as your antivirus
software also complains about gtkmm-uninst.exe. I'll check on the nsis
mailing list for similar behaviors.

In the meantime, could you try with the latest release of my gtkmm-2.4
binaries (2.4.11-2) ?

Cedric