On Oct 13, 12:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Phoenix) wrote: > On 10/13/07, Inventor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To distribute the program I zip up the Perl source file with > > some other text files by first using tar -cf filename.tar *, then gzip > > filename.tar, then renaming filename.tar.gz to filename.tgz. > > If you have gnu tar, you don't need to have a separate gzip-and-rename > step; gnu tar has the z option to handle .tgz files natively. > > > I put > > that on my web site and there have been complaints that their virus > > checking software flags it as containing a virus. > > Ha ha ha! I hope that the software merely said that it "may be" a > virus. But your text files (no binaries?) aren't likely to contain any > viral code. Of course, some "virus" checking software checks for other > kinds of malware as well, and maybe it's being triggered because you > mentioned "rm -rf /" in the documentation, or something silly like > that. > > But you don't need to change what you're doing because somebody else's > virus checker is buggy. More to the point: Until you know what's > triggering the bug, you can merely guess how to work around it. Don't > waste your time. > > If you're willing to have your file on a website, you're probably > willing to let the complainers turn the file over to the vendor of > their virus checker. If the vendor is good about these things, they'll > quickly update their virus definitions not to be tripped up by files > like yours. If not, well, it's up to the person who wants your file to > get their own virus checker to work right. > > Cheers! > > --Tom Phoenix > Stonehenge Perl Training
Yep, everything looks kosher from this end according to what you said, so I'll mention to the person that he should check with his virus software provider. Thanks a bunch, and I got a direct response from a Stonehenge Trainer! This little newsgroup is quite the gem of Perl wisdom, isn't it? :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
