On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:25:18AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 23.12.2016 10:20, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
[...] > > Yes, I can confirm that I have downloaded the ISO from the > > official website -- it's a nightly build of their > > SVN revision 6766. > > OK, as far as I can see, the issue comes from the setmbr.exe that is > contained in the iso for writing the KolibriOS to an USB stick. > According to http://board.kolibrios.org/viewtopic.php?t=2295 the report > from Avira is a false positive (likely caused because the program tries > to write to the MBR - which is also what some viruses / trojans are doing). Phew, indeed it's a false positive. To quote verbatim from the above thread, for the record: "The program setmbr.exe modifies MBR of USB flash drives or (optionally) hard disks, to allow them load KolibriOS. Usually programs that modify MBR are viruses - that's why your [Avast] antivirus reported it." > Anyway, since these Windows tools are not required for running > KolibriOS in a VM, I've now removed them from the iso image and > uploaded a new version to avoid future confusion: > > http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/download/day09-v2.tar.xz Thanks, Thomas, for the swift response while I was AFK. Glad that we're two people coordinating this. > If you've got some spare minutes, it would be great if you could give > that new version another try to see whether the warning from Avira is > now properly gone (I don't have a Windows here to test this on my own). Yeah, I don't have Windows either to test. But good that this is just a false positive from an overly-paranoid tool. -- /kashyap
