I just received the following response from [email protected] directly to me.
Sending it to the list. Wanted it on the same thread, thus the copy-paste of his response. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, it was a false alarm. I used AVG 2013. The virus database was > 3204/6473. I am terribly sorry if this has caused any concern. I didn't pay > attention carefully to the How To Report section on the LibreOffice website. > Used the wrong link haha. I'll refer to the security link on the website > next time. Thank you and I appreciate your understanding. > > Regards, > Trex5473 > I also received the response directly to me instead of the list, with good information. Copy-paste again. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have heard of anti-virus packages in the past having a false positive for > a part of LO system. But it has been maybe 6 months to a year since I have > heard of one doing this, if my memory is correct. > > Yes, we need the anti-virus package name and what it states is the virus > involved. > > To be honest, it could be a virus that infected the file on/by his/her > system so it would "activate" every time LO starts up, instead of the file > being download with the infection. > > I know that I run anti virus on my most active systems daily automatically > so I can keep infections off my system. I even have my Linux system run its > anti virus starting before hours midnight nightly. With 3 drives totaling > of up to 5 TB of storage space, sometimes it does not finish till after I > have breakfast. I keep my Windows laptops protected by Comodo Internet > Security Suite - the free version - and run other security package weekly > and/or monthly. Windows users need all the protection they can get to stop > all of those nasties that people are getting every day or so. Peace, -- Barry Smith Secure Computer Service c 704-497-4217 e [email protected] e [email protected] w1 http://bit.ly/l8QJup w2 http://scs-llc.info/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
