GNU bug report logs - #12284
Trojan in Emacs 24.1 Windows emacsclient.exe?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Tony Graham" <dev.emacs <at> mentea.net>

Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:04:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Tony Graham" <dev.emacs <at> mentea.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Trojan in Emacs 24.1 Windows emacsclient.exe?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:49:16 +0100 (IST)

I have had ZoneAlarm anti-virus on two computers (running the same version
of ZoneAlarm) report the 'Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Dapato.bpkq' virus in the
'emacsclient.exe' from a emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip freshly downloaded from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Tony Graham" <dev.emacs <at> mentea.net>
Cc: 12284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12284: Trojan in Emacs 24.1 Windows emacsclient.exe?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:02:32 -0400

> I have had ZoneAlarm anti-virus on two computers (running the same version
> of ZoneAlarm)

Anti-virus are crap that waste everybody's time and resources.
Do yourself a favor and throw it away.


        Stefan
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Message #11 received at 12284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>
To: Tony Graham <dev.emacs <at> mentea.net>
Cc: 12284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12284: Trojan in Emacs 24.1 Windows emacsclient.exe?
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:11:21 -0600

On 8/26/2012 3:49 AM, Tony Graham wrote:
> I have had ZoneAlarm anti-virus on two computers (running the same version
> of ZoneAlarm) report the 'Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Dapato.bpkq' virus in the
> 'emacsclient.exe' from a emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip freshly downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip

We have had quite a few false positives in recent months. I would 
recommend reporting this to the ZoneAlarm folks.

Christoph
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:06:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 12284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Tony Graham" <dev.emacs <at> mentea.net> Request was from Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:06:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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