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February 27, 2007

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Nathan Garrett

Folio Problem

Hey folks;

One of the helpful people downloading the v.5 version of my plug-in has reported that Kaspersky found a virus in one of the files.  I can't yet duplicate the report with Panda, Norton, or AVG, but just in case, please delete all of the files in mod/folio from your computers.  This shouldn't cause any uninstall problems with your servers, reloading the plug-in won't kill any data.

I'll repost when I can either confirm or deny the problem. If anyone else gets this message, please let me know.

Posted by Nathan Garrett

Comments

  1. F-Secure uses Kaspersky as one of its 3 engines and it reported a virus for the previous version of your plugin. I dismissed it as a false positive then, but now I'm curious :-).

    BTW Thanks for the update on your very valuable plugin. I'll  try it as soon as possible (I'm a bit overloaded right now)

    Cheers 

    josemotajosemota on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 20:10 CET # |

  2. Ooops! I wanted to mark this thread as interesting and instead I flagged it as obscene or inappropriate. Sorry about the mess guys (~blushes~).

    josemotajosemota on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 20:13 CET # |

  3. Wow, that's embarissing for it to have slipped by all of the different virus scanners around for that long.  I'm hoping that it's really a false positive, as it's a 2003 virus and I doubt that the 3 other engines I've been using are *all* wrong.  I'm enough a norton critic to disbelieve it, but not panda & avg as well.  Oh well...  My wife bought a copy for our home computer & is scanning it now.

    Nathan GarrettNathan Garrett on Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 20:28 CET # |

  4. Just checked version 4 of the wiki add-in with Avira Antivir Classic and got this:
    "_folio/perfstop.php
    [DETECTION] Contains signature of the IRC virus IRC/Bnc.J"

    josemotajosemota on Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 00:09 CET # |

  5. Okay, got Kasper & cleaned up the files. The install files are reposted now.

    Nathan GarrettNathan Garrett on Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 16:52 CET # |

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