----- Original Message -----
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@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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