On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:08, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Mike Taylor wrote:
> > the window's boxes are getting a cvs error:
> >
> > cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.test_testvirus2 to
> > test_testvirus2: No such file or directory
>
> This happened because the file contained a virus, and the antivirus
> software noticed it and deleted the file, which confused CVS.
>
> DO NOT CHECK IN VIRUSES!
>
> This includes stuff that are not real viruses but are designed to
> trigger antivirus software for testing purposes.

Sorry - this was my fault - I had a MIME torture test suite that was
checked in, and one of these was a MIME-encoded virus that had
some ugly MIME in it. I thought I'd defanged it, but obviously either
it was not enough, or that defanging didn't get included in the released
version. 

Anthony
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