Alex Hunsley wrote: > Symantec antivirus has apparently picked up a virus in my Python 2.4 > (under cygwin): > > Scan type: Scheduled Scan > Event: Threat Found! > Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.49 > File: C:\cygwin\lib\python2.4\email\MIMEBase.pyc > Location: Quarantine > Action taken: Quarantine succeeded > > There's info to be found on various pages, but it's a pretty terse > explanation: > http://secunia.com/virus_information/22534/bloodhound.exploit.49/ > > Has anyone had this also? Is it perhaps a false positive?
if Python had anything to do with this, they would probably have mentioned it in the related documents: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.exploit.49.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-048.mspx </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list