Re: PERL's Encode::Byte is being flagged by AVGfree as WIN32/PolyCrypt anyonelse

[Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb dot com>]

Reini Urban wrote:
> William Deegan schrieb:
> > Anyone else seeing this?
> > I've done an uninstall, removed the saved downloads from setup.
> > Then installed them again.
> > Same issue.
>
> Which file exactly?
> There is /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Encode/Byte.pm
> or /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto/Encode/Byte/*.dll*
>
> I have no such virus on my machine which could have make it into the 
> distro.
> AVGFree is wrong.
>
> $ clamscan /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto/Encode/Byte/Byte.dll \
>            /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto/Encode/Byte/libByte.dll.a \
>            /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Encode/Byte.pm
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto/Encode/Byte/Byte.dll: OK
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto/Encode/Byte/libByte.dll.a: OK
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Encode/Byte.pm: OK
>
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 143206
> Engine version: 0.91.1
> Scanned directories: 0
> Scanned files: 3
> Infected files: 0
> Data scanned: 0.15 MB
> Time: 3.280 sec (0 m 3 s)
>
> $ clamscan -V
> ClamAV 0.91.1-exp/3904/Thu Aug  9 02:01:48 2007

It wouldn't be the first time an anti-virus product gave a false 
positive. Recently AVG started to report the Python Windows installer as 
a virus, which gave a few people a short sharp shock. But they did fix 
their signatures very quickly once informed of the position.

regards
 Steve
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