Re: Virus on sed.exe

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Ed Brady wrote:
> I just ran a virus scan, and got a hit for sed.exe.  
> Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA.   Anyone else seen anything similar to this?

  Seen a few false positives with AVG in my personal experience.  Most AVs run
into the odd one now and again.  Some of them seem to have a fondness for
Cygwin, probably because it's not part of any of their standard testing
environments, so they wouldn't notice false positives in it before releasing a
new .dat file.

> I run scans frequently and have never had this show up before I want to
> believe that this is a false positive, but want to be sure...

  Here's md5sums of my versions:

1.5:
~ $ cygcheck -c sed
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
sed                  4.1.5-2        OK
~ $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe

1.7:
$ cygcheck -c sed
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version        Status
sed                  4.1.5-2        OK

$ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe

  If yours match (assuming same versions of course), you're clean.  For a
second opinion, try uploading your sed.exe at http://virusscan.jotti.org/

    cheers,
      DaveK

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