Re: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe

2008-08-05 Thread Ангелин Лалев
Thanks for the fast replies!
I'm going to proceed with installation. 
Maybe Avast guys should be notified, but that must be done from someone 
regular with the project.  

 > Оригинално писмо 
 >От:  "Len Popp" 
 >Относно: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
 >До: "Tomcat Users List" 
 >Изпратено на: Сряда, 2008, Август 6 03:09:50 EEST

 >2008/8/5 Johnny Kewl :
 >>
 >> - Original Message - From: "Mark Thomas" 
 >> To: "Tomcat Users List" 
 >> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:09 PM
 >> Subject: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
 >>
 >>
 >>> Mark Thomas wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>> Ангелин Лалев wrote:
 >>>>>
 >>>>> Apparently the address is from Bulgarian mirror, where I am
 >>>>> automatically redirected when i load the
 >>>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi.
 >>>>> The md5 sum is from there too.
 >>>>>
 >>>>> If the alert is reproducable on binaries from other mirrors that still
 >>>>> don't mean it's a virus.
 >>>>> I had false warnings with Avast before.
 >>>>
 >>>> Indeed. That is what I am trying to establish.
 >>>
 >>> I am as sure as I can be that this is a false positive.
 >>>
 >>> Mark
 >>
 >> Hi Mark, I think so to, I scanned the zips, scanned native binaries...
 >> conclude either something has snuck onto the MS build machine, or Avast is
 >> getting it wrong... I believe the later because it doesnt actually identify
 >> the virus, Win32 gen seems to be a generic warning with no description...
 >> But all this doesnt really matter... one cant recommend users ignore it,
 >> Avast is popular... and its just the kind of thing competition will thrive
 >> on... its negative marketing for TC.
 >> It will probably go away with a slight mod to the build and I think it has
 >> to be marked as urgent and the instant the next build is ready, its
 >> replaced.
 >> I would actually remove it... just the Win32 service... the zip is fine.
 >> Regards
 >> JK
 >
 >I agree that a false positive from Avast shouldn't be ignored, but I
 >think the correct solution is for someone @apache.org to contact Avast
 >and ask them to either explain what the problem is or remove Tomcat
 >from their virus definitions.
 >
 >Sometimes the problem is caused by the installer program. There have
 >been cases where the anti-virus guys mistakenly extract a signature
 >from the installer program rather than the from the malware itself,
 >which causes false positives on other programs using the same
 >installer. Just a guess, but it seems likely here because Tomcat uses
 >the popular open-source Nullsoft installer.
 >-- 
 >Len
 >

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Re: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe

2008-08-05 Thread Ангелин Лалев
Apparently the address is from Bulgarian mirror, where I am automatically 
redirected 
when i load the http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi.
The md5 sum is from there too.

If the alert is reproducable on binaries from other mirrors that still don't 
mean it's a virus.
I had false warnings with Avast before.

http://apache.online.bg/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.18/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe



 > Original letter 
 >От:  Mark Thomas 
 >Относно: Re: Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe
 >До: Tomcat Users List 
 >Изпратено на: Вторник, 2008, Август 5 20:34:35 EEST

 >Angelin Lalev wrote:
 >> Greetings, 
 >> 
 >> Avast Antivirus detects some strange trojan when the installer runs. Is it 
 >> a known problem?
 >
 >It isn't but I see the same issue. Let me do some more testing.
 >
 >Mark
 >
 >
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Avast Antivirus and apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe

2008-08-05 Thread Ангелин Лалев
Greetings, 

Avast Antivirus detects some strange trojan when the installer runs. Is it a 
known problem?
The virus information: 
File name: C:\DOCUME~1\Ownjo\LOCALS~1\Temp\nspDA.tmp\nsDB.tmp
Malware name: Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}
Malware type: Virus/Worm
VPS version: 080805-0, 08/05/2008

The file is donwloaded today at ~ 5:40GMT. MD5: 
fb827381b1eca44bf32273db548157d3 (matches)

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