On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:53:12 +1000, Daniel wrote: > Ken Rudolph wrote: >> Martin Feitag wrote: >>> PS: As said for an alpha it's very stable, don't compare it too much >>> with other alphas you might have tested, as the codebase is pretty >>> mature. Of course it's not recommended to replace SM1 with SM2 yet in >>> a productivity environment but having SM2 parallely doesn't harm and >>> keeps up the hope/interest ;-) >> >> Hey, I tried to download SM 2.0a3 to test and my virus checker >> quarantined it saying it was a trojan or malware. I have a feeling that >> it isn't such; but maybe I should wait at least for the beta? >> Incidentally, why does it trip the virus checker? No Mozilla program >> has ever done that in the past. >> >> --Ken Rudolph > > Hey, Ken, what virus checker do you use?? Microsoft's, maybe??
SeaMonkey 2.0 like Firefox 3.0/3/5 uses the UPX compressor to compress the installer executable. Unfortunately so do a lot of malware. Most antivirus programs blacklist UPX executables and then explicitly whitelist certain legitimate software such as Firefox. For lesser known software like SeaMonkey (and also Firefox/Minefield nightly builds) it takes longer for said antivirus companies to take action. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
