[Haskell-cafe] Virus alert while installing happstack

2010-02-14 Thread Maciej Podgurski 

Hi,

I tried to install happstack via cabal install happstack on my WinXP 
system. While installation progress, my anti-virus software (Avira 
AntiVir) warned me about dll_hsc_make.exe and files_hsc_make.exe to be a 
Trojan horse called TR/Dropper.Gen. It's a bit confusing to get a 
virus alert while installing Haskell packages. Has anyone experienced 
this problem? And can I trust these files to be harmless?



Besh wishes,

Maciej

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Virus alert while installing happstack

2010-02-14 Thread Marc Weber 
Hi Maciej,

Several open source projects suffered from false positives.
Usually you sent the file to the company having written your Virus
detection application for review. It may be a Virus. However it's very
unlikely. If you're in doubt you should compile from source and also
check the source which was used to compile ghc .. etc. I want to say if
you really want to be secure the amount of work is infinity.

So I'd sent the file to AntiVir. Then I would go one ignoring the
warning (If it *is* a Virus don't make me responsible for any damage -
you never know.) I just tell you what I would do. Maybe delete the file
and redownload it to make sure that it wasn't modified while traveling
through the net?  You can also paste the md5sum of those executables.
Maybe someone else can verify them easily.

Good luck
Marc Weber
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Virus alert while installing happstack

2010-02-14 Thread Max Rabkin 
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
 unlikely. If you're in doubt you should compile from source and also
 check the source which was used to compile ghc .. etc. I want to say if
 you really want to be secure the amount of work is infinity.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

--Max
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