[Mailman-Users] mailman-2.1.5.gz contains Exploit-MIME.genAccording to McAfee

[Mark Sapiro]

Phil Welch wrote:

>FYI
> 
>I just installed McAfee and as it ran through my MS Windows XP files, the only file it found to contain a virus is mailman-2.1.5.gz.  Although I have installed it on my Linux server, I typically download to my XP workstation and then upload to my server both as a backup and/or when I don't know the URL so as to use wget.
> 

The distribution file tests/msgs/nimda.txt is identified by McAfee
(scan engine 4320, definitions 4398) as containing Exploit-MIME.gen.c.
It doesn't really contain the worm, but judging from its name and
location it is designed to be detected as a test of something.

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