GNU bug report logs - #14098
virus in emacs 24.2 binary?

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From: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:39:28 +0100

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Hi,
my anti-virus (AVG) software reports virus in \emavs-23.2\bin\ddeclient.exe
The binaries came from: emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip

The report was on a "generic32.uwy" trojan.

Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus software
wrong or do I need to worry?

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From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:16:17 +0000 (GMT)

Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com> writes:
> The report was on a "generic32.uwy" trojan.
                       ^^^^^^^^^
> Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus
> software wrong or do I need to worry?

Heuristic detection of computer viruses is doomed to fail, do not rely
on it at all.

        Christopher

Message #11 received at 14098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:18:59 +0300

> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:39:28 +0100
> From: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com>
> 
> my anti-virus (AVG) software reports virus in \emavs-23.2\bin\ddeclient.exe
> The binaries came from: emacs-24.2-bin-i386.zip
> 
> The report was on a "generic32.uwy" trojan.
> 
> Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus software
> wrong or do I need to worry?

Your anti-virus is wrong: I was using that binary for many months with
no problems at all.  If your AVG and its database are up-to-date, I
suggest to send the executable for analysis.

Message #18 received at 14098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14098: virus in emacs 24.2 binary?
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:34:56 -0400

> Googling told me that this has happened before, is my anti-virus software
> wrong or do I need to worry?

You can generally assume that all anti-virus software are wrong.
About pretty much everything they say.


        Stefan

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