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

[Alex Chaihorsky]

Great job, guys. Very professional.

Alex.


On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Dan Smith via chirp_users <chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Yep, and just to further explain how these builds are created for those
> that are interested (and/or are wondering how we attempt to protect our
> users who trust our builds):
> 
> Every night, when a change is pending, the build server literally builds
> an entirely new Windows 7 virtual machine with known-good copies of all
> of our base dependencies. It then creates the new chirp build on that
> machine and uploads it to the chirp website. When it's done, it
> *destroys* the temporary machine it created. The next day, the whole
> thing starts from scratch.
> 
> The process takes about 10 minutes total and occurs on an almost
> completely sealed private network. There's really no opportunity for
> anything to get on the build machine and disrupt the process, and it
> certainly wouldn't change day-to-day, build-to-build.
> 
> --Dan
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