I think the best thing you can do is send the exe to kaspersky and tell them its a false alarm (they must have some reporting facility).
Best, Dee On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, graham telfer <gakouse...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > My Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 detects Xelatex.exe to be a PDM > RootShell virus. > > I am sure this is a false positive but I don't know what code in the .exe is > firing off Kaspersky. Perhaps the code needs checking for this effect on > anti-virus software. > > Incidentally Kaspersky also fires with the same root virus message for the > MikTeX configuration utility and TexMaker.exe. > > Yours > > Graham Telfer > > ________________________________ > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex