On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 15:13, ngollan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2:21 pm, Lars Viklund <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is a .sf file and how does it violate the Terms of Service. > > It appears to be a ".sfx" file that is part of self-extracting 7zip > archives (more exactly, the executable header that cares for > extracting files and executing the installer itself). I'd also love to > know in how far that violates ToS. > The file in question contains malware. This was found by our malware scanners, and in this particular case it was deemed serious enough that it triggered an automatic ban of the project, to protect users. The analysis of the file in question by VirusTotal (a free multi-scanner file analysis service) can be found here: https://www.virustotal.com/analisis/15732e567cd6975acccd8f52b2e882592dfc253f9ed699f0149050d73c77a228-1259850206 Sorry for not communicating this better to begin with. We are looking into better ways of notifying project owners who may have accidentally uploaded malware (eg. compiled on an infected machine) and telling them apart from malicious abusers who use the project hosting platform to distribute malware. The current solution is definitely suboptimal when there is a false positive (fortunately fairly rare from what we can tell). I see in your logs that the file has been removed, so I've republished the project. Ideally, since the file is still visible in version control, could you amend the commit log message for that revision, to state why users shouldn't use that file? Thanks, and again, apologies for the inconvenience and bad communication. Anotehr thing I would like to know is what was going on in zwetan's > head. > All I know is that zwetan is not a part of and does not speak for the Project Hosting team. Thanks for taking action, and again apologies for the inconvenience and bad communication. - Dave > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hosting at Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code-hosting%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
