[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-534116 ] Python-2.*.exe has virus?
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Bugs item #534116, was opened at 2002-03-23 15:42
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Category: Installation
>Group: 3rd Party
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Submitted By: joth tupper (joth3)
>Assigned to: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Summary: Python-2.*.exe has virus?
Initial Comment:
Two files within the Windows installation files Python-
2.2.exe and Python-2.1.2.exe downloaded from
www.python.org show as infected with the same virus.
I have not run the install, by the way.
GENINDEX.HTML
MODULE-XMLLIB.HTML
The files are identified as infected with VBS.NewLoveA
according to Norton Anti-Virus v.5.01.03 for Windows
(95/98) using (ancient) virus definitions dated
5/18/2000.
I am currently downloading Python-2.2.exe from
SourceForge.
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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2002-03-23 16:08
Message:
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user_id=31435
NAV 6.10.24 on Win98 with more recent definitions detects
no viruses. These are plain HTML files, and don't contain
any script (let alone VBScript), so the threat here is
simply non-existent. Closing this as a NAV bug (not the
first, and won't be the last <wink>).
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