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From: "Mark Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
Mark Thomas wrote:
Ангелин Лалев wrote:
Apparently the address is from Bulgarian mirror, where I am
automatically redirected when i load the
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi.
The md5 sum is from there too.
If the alert is reproducable on binaries from other mirrors that still
don't mean it's a virus.
I had false warnings with Avast before.
Indeed. That is what I am trying to establish.
I am as sure as I can be that this is a false positive.
Mark
Hi Mark, I think so to, I scanned the zips, scanned native binaries...
conclude either something has snuck onto the MS build machine, or Avast is
getting it wrong... I believe the later because it doesnt actually identify
the virus, Win32 gen seems to be a generic warning with no description...
But all this doesnt really matter... one cant recommend users ignore it,
Avast is popular... and its just the kind of thing competition will thrive
on... its negative marketing for TC.
It will probably go away with a slight mod to the build and I think it has
to be marked as urgent and the instant the next build is ready, its
replaced.
I would actually remove it... just the Win32 service... the zip is fine.
Regards
JK
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