Dear Unicon Group,
I am not sure what percentage of us are Windows users, but if any of you
were aggressively following our beloved Source Forge bug tracker this week,
you would have seen a report from a user that his Windows Unicon binaries
had triggered a Virus warning. This is very exciting. The message indicated
that the warning might be a "false positive", but I thought I should tell
everyone what I know after a bit of checking.
* The virus reported was Virus.Win32.Vampiro.7018. According to
viruslist.com it is a "harmless" non-memory resident virus that attaches
itself to the ends of .exe files in its current directory but does nothing
else.
* The latest binaries were built in 11/2009 on a university laboratory
machine and the virus was apparently present on that machine.
* The virus was not detected by a copy of Norton Antivirus that I was using,
so we may end up switching vendors. Kaspersky and derivatives such as
F-Secure report this virus and are known to occasionally show false
positives.
* The similarity between the virus and Unicon's method of attaching our VM
bytecodes onto the ends of .exe files is interesting but the virus is
reported in
.exe files where this operation would not occur, and goes away in a clean
rebuild, so I believe it is real.
* We are building new Windows Unicon binaries presently, which we needed to
do anyway. We apologize for this inconvenience and will take greater
precautions in future.
Regards,
Clint
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