[Dev] High Importance
Brett Gilio
brettg at posteo.net
Wed Jul 18 07:00:36 GMT 2018
Christopher Davis writes:
> I have been looking into this, and it seems likely that this is
> a false
> positive. The code "6606621" was
> also used for a CUPS file, and according to VirusTotal only
> ClamAV reported an
> issue. Information
> here:
> https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e770c592101a051e7a8d45a618c06244c301a8a6bcdec3f4dcc73a27b425c37b/detection
>
> Uploading to VirusTotal could help us figure out whether it's a
> valid report in
> this case too,
> though be aware that you will need to run non-free JS within
> your browser to use
> the page.
I did some research on the file in question, too. It seems that
ClamAV
flags it as a virus due to some bad checking on the hexcode in the
file.
This has actually been reported to ClamAV in the past.
In summary, this package is not problematic.
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Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
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