<p dir="ltr">What if the individual's installer exe is infected (post downoad)? Again might be worth checking the checksum on the download. The installer bootstrap for Windows is one of the few places in the package something malicious might hide.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 13, 2015 4:29 PM, "Ronald Thornton" <<a href="mailto:thornton@aerostation.org">thornton@aerostation.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On my Win7, I just forced McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8.0 to update.<br>
I then forced the scan of chirp-daily-20151013-installer.exe and the<br>
resulting program directory tree after installation. It didn't report<br>
any virus.<br>
<br>
False positive from Panda?<br>
<br>
-Ron-<br>
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On 10/13/2015 05:16 PM, Alex Chaihorsky wrote:<br>
> Tom,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for prompt response.<br>
><br>
> You may be right, but the source code argument is not very convincing. The fact that there is nothing in the source code does not mean that the compiled package could not pick up a piggyback virus. Or that it was, actually introduced by the infected compiler.<br>
> The older version that I used (couple of weeks ago, I can check) had no problem, though.<br>
> Please, advise,<br>
><br>
> Thanks again for the prompt response.<br>
><br>
> Alex.<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPad<br>
><br>
>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 14:02, Tom Hayward <<a href="mailto:tom@tomh.us">tom@tomh.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Alexander Chaihorsky <<a href="mailto:xyz1953@gmail.com">xyz1953@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Panda reported a virus W32/Exploit.gen in Oct9 daily build and also today, Oct 13. My system Win7 on Toshib Ultrabook Core i3.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Please, advise.<br>
>> The Chirp source code is available to read. There's quite obviously<br>
>> (at least as a developer) not a virus in there.<br>
>><br>
>> Your anti-virus software is wrong. I suggest disabling it.<br>
>><br>
>> Tom KD7LXL<br>
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