Scribus, per se, won't infect a PDF with a windows virus. My guess would be that your machine is infected, and that any PDF on it gets infected. Try booting it on a live CD and run a full antivirus scan on it from that roead-only bootable media. This is a good start for a disinfection.
Thomas Kratz wrote: > > I now found a way to scan with McAfee just the pdfs exported with > scribus. And it always complains about freshly generated pdfs. The > older pdfs in the folder he accepts as OK. He even finds the virus if > I only export one page containing only text ... > > Please help with this, because my magazine is nearly finished and the > problem is that McAfee just deletes the fresh pdf, not cleans it ... > > > > Thomas Kratz schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> somebody whom I sent a pdf generated with scribus told me that she >> got a virus message, telling that the attachment would contain >> Exploit.PDF.b.gen >> >> I already scanned my computer with 2 different Virus Programms and >> with McAfee in the quick modus, which I just installed. Nothing was >> found. In the moment McAfee is running with the long modus, but this >> seems to take ages. >> >> But: whenever I export a pdf with scribus, an alert from McAfee pops >> up that he found this virus in the file I just created and deletes >> this file. >> >> Is there a known issue with Exploit.PDF.b.gen and Scribus? >> >> Thanks >> Thomas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
