[chirp_users] Panda reported a virus in Oct 9 and Oct 13 dailybuilds.

[Alexander Chaihorsky]

I repeated the downloads and this time the checksums were the same.
Panda reported no problems.
The only difference is that I started this one from the download directory
and the previous ones from the Chrome browser... May be its the browser
doing its Google spying and attaching something during startup?
Have no idea. But will ask around with my old time Silicon Valley buddies...

Best to everybody, thank you for help.
Donation is on the way :)

Alex.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Bill Gabbard <wcgabbard1 at windstream.net>
wrote:

> *No virus reported by Norton on my 7 PC or AVG on my 10 PC.*
> *All working great**..........Bill*
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us>
> *To:* Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2015 5:36 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [chirp_users] Panda reported a virus in Oct 9 and Oct 13
> dailybuilds.
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Eric Vought <evought at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Most of the distribution IS python source is it not? It's compiled
> on-the-
> > fly by the Python runtime. Tom, are there blobs in the package which
> might
> > trigger a false- positive? Alex, does the download checksum correctly?
>
> Yes, that is most likely what is happening.
>
> Every few months we get a message like this to the mailing list. It's
> usually one of the smaller antivirus packages reporting a virus. So
> far they have all been false positives. My guess is there are actual
> viruses out there using Python libraries, and not realizing they're
> looking at popular open source software, the antivirus company flags
> it.
>
> False positives are extremely common in antivirus software, and
> detection rates of real malicious software is low. I don't even bother
> with antivirus software.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
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