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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Love Cederström <love.cederstrom <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>
To: 14098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 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
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