On 6 July 2016 at 20:23, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
It looks like Avast is replacing AVG with Avast: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/07/avast-acquires-rival-avg-for-1-3-billion-to-create-a-security-software-giant/ > > :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 _______________________________________________ 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
