WEBFORM URGENT - Trojan in inkscape executable?
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name: Dirk Rensink email: dirk.rensink@...1391...
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Hello together,
I downloaded the Inkscape 0.44 Windows executable last week and installed it without any problems. Today I switched on my computer and after some minutes I got a warning message from my antivirus software (Norton Antivirus 2006) that it found the trojan Trojan.Zlob in the 0.44-exe and that it was deleted. After checking the Norotn virus database I found none of the registry entries and none of the files the trojan creates. Now I cannot even download the exe any more since Norton insists in finding this trojan.
Although I suspect that this is a false alarm: Could you please check the Windows executables? Are there any other users which report the same infection with other antivirus software? I will now initiate a complete system scan and will let you know the results.
Thanks for your response.
Best regards,
Dirk Rensink
On Jul 2, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Dirk Rensink wrote:
Hello together,
I downloaded the Inkscape 0.44 Windows executable last week and installed it without any problems. Today I switched on my computer and after some minutes I got a warning message from my antivirus software (Norton Antivirus 2006) that it found the trojan Trojan.Zlob in the 0.44-exe and that it was deleted. After checking the Norotn virus database I found none of the registry entries and none of the files the trojan creates. Now I cannot even download the exe any more since Norton insists in finding this trojan.
Although I suspect that this is a false alarm: Could you please check the Windows executables? Are there any other users which report the same infection with other antivirus software? I will now initiate a complete system scan and will let you know the results.
Thanks for your response.
I appears that Norton put out an update that started detecting a false positive. It has been scanned with other scanners and comes up clean.
In the past, virus scanners (and perhaps Norton specifically) have gotten false positives on the NSIS installer. Usually it just takes contacting the vender to get things cleared up.
Jon Cruz wrote
I appears that Norton put out an update that started detecting a false positive. It has been scanned with other scanners and comes up clean.
In the past, virus scanners (and perhaps Norton specifically) have gotten false positives on the NSIS installer. Usually it just takes contacting the vender to get things cleared up.
The truth appears to be a bit more complicated as we have now tracker reports claiming the same result from the Symantec scanner.
ralf
On Jul 3, 2006, at 2:26 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:
The truth appears to be a bit more complicated as we have now tracker reports claiming the same result from the Symantec scanner.
Not really.
Symantec has owned the Norton product for some time now. So they are both coming from the same vendor.
:-)
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