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From: Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi" <risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git download ---  Virus
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:48:36 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141016134836.062c143b3d90a0f70e181234@domain007.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17221679.285681413452133349.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost>

On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:35:33 +0300 (EEST)
"risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi" <risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi> wrote:

> I downloaded and started to Install Git.
> 
> There is a Virus on you setup.
> Program that appears to have trojan-like features or behavior.
> 
> Git/bin/pdfinfo.exe
> 
> trojan.generic.[variant], gen:trojan.[variant]
> 
> Why???

Because your antivirus software applies its (seemingly imperfect)
heuristics and thinks there's a virus while there's none.

To state this in a more blunt way: no there's no any virus in the Git
for Windows installation package.

The other possibility is you obtaining the installation package from
a place other than http://git-scm.com or some malware active on your
computer is changing the packages you're downloading on the fly.  The
latter is highly unlikely though.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-16  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16  9:35 Git download --- Virus risto.makiniemi
2014-10-16  9:48 ` Konstantin Khomoutov [this message]

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