On 07/06/2016 06:55 PM, Simon Budig wrote: > Hi Sally. > > Sally Davies ([email protected]) wrote: >> I've recently installed GIMP - in June 2016. My antivirus software is AVG. >> It has picked up corrupted GIMP files, saying that there is a generic virus >> involved: > > Where exactly did you download Gimp? > > Please note that there are tons of download sites, that might very well > host a malware-injected package of gimp. We strongly encourage > downloading from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ for that very reason.
I might add that "generic virus" appears to indicate that heuristics detected something that looks like a virus (or worm or exploit or...) to AVG but is not in its virus signature database. AVG itself has a history of "downhill progress" over the last several years and I have recently seen indications that it tends to throw false positive virus warnings. I would recommend uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Avast, as a first step in troubleshooting "generic" virus reports from AVG. Needless to say, download programs only from the websites of their original makers, etc. etc. :o) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
