Re: Windows viruses in Debian email packages [from Misc Developer News (#44)]

2017-08-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Steve Robbins wrote: > The news item doesn't specify what to do after scanning, but the referenced > bug requests removal of the offending material. Personally I would recommend removal, especially since most (but not all) malware is not DFSG-free. If the malware

Re: Windows viruses in Debian email packages [from Misc Developer News (#44)]

2017-08-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 at 09:03:12 -0500, Steve Robbins wrote: > The news bit refers to "test corpus", so removal would presumably not change > the output. But I have to wonder: are there not cases where the malware is > present for *training* a detection system? If so, I would imagine removal >

Re: Windows viruses in Debian email packages [from Misc Developer News (#44)]

2017-08-05 Thread Steve Robbins
On Friday, August 4, 2017 12:35:04 PM CDT Paul Wise wrote: > Windows viruses in Debian email packages > > > Sometimes[6] upstreams of email related packages include live Windows > viruses/malware in their test corpus, either by accident or on purpose, >