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RE: PERL's Encode::Byte is being flagged by AVGfree as WIN32/PolyCrypt anyonelse
On 09 August 2007 17:32, David Arnstein wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:43:18PM -0700, William Deegan wrote:
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Yes. Last night, AVG (paid version) detected a massive 131
> Win32/PolyCrypt infections, mostly in Cygwin files.
Yep, got that too, in a bunch of DLLs. Also, it managed to trip on a random
selection of self-compiled object and library (.o and .a) files.
> I suspect false positive here.
Yes, we've established that beyond any reasonable doubt.
> I emailed a request for help to the vendor.
I also reported this and had back a reply saying their engineers have a fix
and we should expect to see it in tonight's signature file update.
cheers,
DaveK
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