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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Mon Jul 7 15:11:12 2014
    Is anyone's anti-virus software showing any PDN file infected with virus or trojans?

    I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false positives... but still.... Just curious if it's one fellow's system or what...

    These files generally are sent here by authors or picked up from sites like git-hub etc.

    Thanks,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/701 to Janis Kracht on Mon Jul 7 16:33:52 2014
    Hello Janis,

    On 07 Jul 14 15:11, Janis Kracht wrote to All:

    Is anyone's anti-virus software showing any PDN file infected with
    virus or trojans?

    I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked
    with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false positives... but still.... Just curious if it's one fellow's system or what...

    These files generally are sent here by authors or picked up from sites like git-hub etc.

    I haven't added any of the new areas at this point, but nothing has been reported as being infected up till now from the entire filegate. I'm using the latest version of clamav and every time it's ran I run "freshclam" which downloads the latest definitions.

    Regards,
    Nick

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130910
    * Origin: Dark Sorrow | darksorrow.us (1:154/701)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Nicholas Boel on Mon Jul 7 17:49:08 2014
    Hello Janis,

    On 07 Jul 14 15:11, Janis Kracht wrote to All:

    Is anyone's anti-virus software showing any PDN file infected with
    virus or trojans?

    I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked
    with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false
    positives... but still.... Just curious if it's one fellow's system or
    what...

    These files generally are sent here by authors or picked up from sites
    like git-hub etc.

    I haven't added any of the new areas at this point, but nothing has been
    reported as being infected up till now from the entire filegate. I'm using the
    latest version of clamav and every time it's ran I run "freshclam" which downloads the latest definitions.

    Thanks Nick... all I can figure is maybe some of these files are so old (like going back to 1980's and 90's), the heuristics engine thinks they're bad? Every
    seen anything like that?

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/701 to Janis Kracht on Mon Jul 7 19:02:40 2014
    Hello Janis,

    On 07 Jul 14 17:49, Janis Kracht wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    Thanks Nick... all I can figure is maybe some of these files are so
    old (like going back to 1980's and 90's), the heuristics engine thinks they're bad? Every seen anything like that?

    I can't say that I have. :(

    Regards,
    Nick

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130910
    * Origin: Dark Sorrow | darksorrow.us (1:154/701)
  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Tue Jul 8 01:44:25 2014
    * An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

    Is anyone's anti-virus software showing any PDN file infected with
    virus or trojans?

    Everything clear here. :)

    --
    Guardien Fide :^)

    Ben aka cMech Web: http://cmech.dynip.com
    Email: fido4cmech(at)lusfiber.net
    Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
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    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC
    * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68)
  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Tue Jul 8 02:36:17 2014
    * An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

    I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked
    with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false

    Probably false, my system scanned 2,864,973 files in 42:14 and all clean :)

    --
    Guardien Fide :^)

    Ben aka cMech Web: http://cmech.dynip.com
    Email: fido4cmech(at)lusfiber.net
    Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
    WildCat! Board 24/7 +1-337-984-4794 any BAUD 8,N,1

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC
    * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ben Ritchey on Tue Jul 8 09:05:48 2014
    * An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and All rages on ...

    I've had one fellow report this though all files hatched were checked
    with Frisk's f-prot at the time of release. I'm expecting false

    Probably false, my system scanned 2,864,973 files in 42:14 and all clean :)

    Thanks for your note Ben.. It's all I can figure..

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ben Ritchey on Thu Jul 10 09:53:26 2014
    Hi Ben,

    Janis, some of these are yours (WinGame) and bear double-checking as they're listed as actually infected with something, yes?

    I'll check it out.. Thanks Ben

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Ben Ritchey on Thu Jul 10 10:15:12 2014
    Janis, some of these are yours (WinGame) and bear double-checking as they're listed as actually infected with something, yes?

    /win_game/25AwnmcW.zip comes up clean here with latest virus defs.. /lnx4games/25AwnmcL.zip also comes up clean (Gert's hatch) /pkware/pkwin32/pkzw400s.zip comes up clean...

    I dunno.. <g>

    Anyone else see a problem with these files on their system?

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Ben Ritchey@1:393/68 to Janis Kracht on Thu Jul 10 11:20:21 2014
    * An ongoing debate between Janis Kracht and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

    /win_game/25AwnmcW.zip comes up clean here with latest virus defs.. /lnx4games/25AwnmcL.zip also comes up clean (Gert's hatch) /pkware/pkwin32/pkzw400s.zip comes up clean...

    Never hurts to double check {chuckle} all my scanners agree with you, too. :)

    --
    Guardien Fide :^)

    Ben aka cMech Web: http://cmech.dynip.com
    Email: fido4cmech(at)lusfiber.net
    Home page: http://users.lusfiber.net/~fido4cmech
    WildCat! Board 24/7 +1-337-984-4794 any BAUD 8,N,1

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC
    * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68)