Virus on sed.exe
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Thu Jul 9 03:01:00 GMT 2009
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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