Fwd: Vshield ghost virus

[Paulo S P Silveira <silveira at dsg dot harvard dot edu>]

> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:43:04 -0500
> To: gcc@gnu.org
> From: Paulo S P Silveira <silveira@dsg.harvard.edu>
> Subject: Vshield ghost virus
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Something weird is happening.
>
> I downloaded gcc-3.2.1.tar.gz from your site to my PC...
> When I tried to uncompress it (by double clicking the file and expecting 
> WinZip could work) McAfee VShield offered the images I'm sending attached. 
> Note that virus name is void! According to the second snapshot, the *.tar 
> is the infected one.
>
> So, I extracted the *.tar included inside the *.tar.gz and ran McAfee 
> Viruscan that, for my surprise, did not show anything.
>
> Then I tried a new download (version 2.9.5) from
> http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-2.95/index.html
> because I understood that is the version recomended to run under CygWin... 
> The file is assumed as infected, too...
>
> Is this possible yourr files are infected, or it is a false positive from 
> McAfee?
>
>
> Hope it helps,
> Sincerely, Paulo.

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