It's almost certainly a false positive. In my day job we run into false
positive antivirus detections like this once or twice a year, and
typically get a runaround from the AV vendor (who often have the gall to
suggest that we should buy a copy of their broken software before
they'll fix their pro
Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Symantec antivirus has apparently picked up a virus in my Python 2.4
> (under cygwin):
>
> Scan type: Scheduled Scan
> Event: Threat Found!
> Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.49
> File: C:\cygwin\lib\python2.4\email\MIMEBase.pyc
> Location: Quarantine
> Action taken: Quarantin
Symantec antivirus has apparently picked up a virus in my Python 2.4
(under cygwin):
Scan type: Scheduled Scan
Event: Threat Found!
Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.49
File: C:\cygwin\lib\python2.4\email\MIMEBase.pyc
Location: Quarantine
Action taken: Quarantine succeeded
There's info to be foun
