######## Virus on your site?!?!!? ########

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Tue May 22 13:08:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Erickson, Rob" writes:

Rob> After downloading the file:
Rob> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-2.95.2/gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz

Rob> My McAfee Virus Scan 4.5.0 (with definition files 4.0.4139) for Windows 2K
Rob> reported that the file contained a Virus.

Rob> Can you please look into this quickly?  Thank you.

	McAfee Virus Scan v4.5.0 reports finding a virus in various
tar.gz files.  There is no virus.  This is a false alarm and known problem
with the virus scanning software.  A string of characters in tar.gz files
can match a virus signature.

David



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