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MySQL 4.0 - Download - Viruses ?

MySQL 4.0 - Download - Viruses ?

2004-03-17       - By Paul DuBois

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At 17:25 -0700 3/16/04, Sasha Pachev wrote:
>Kevin Carpenter wrote:
> >While downloading this a I got a number of virus warnings from
> >McAfee. I aborted the download.
> >
> >Anyone else experienced this?
> >
> >I emailed MySQL but didn 't hear back.
>
>Kevin:
>
>Were you downloading a Windows or some other binary? If it was
>Windows, I would be concerned - the build machine could have gotten
>infected. The unfortunate thing is that MySQL build team could very
>easily miss it because so many Windows machines out there are
>already infected anyway that spreading a virus through the Windows
>binary would probably not make things that much worse.

I hope everyone recognizes that this is speculation.


>
>If it was some other binary, this is fairly common - by an odd
>coincidence tar.gz of MySQL binary contains byte strings similar to
>some viruses known to McAfee. There is no reasonable way a
>non-Windows tar.gz could infect a Windows machine. A theoretical
>possibility, of course, exists, but the Earth being hit by a large
>asteroid by tonight is more likely.
>
>--
>Sasha Pachev
>Create online surveys at http://www.surveyz.com/


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