A possible virus

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Apr 26 16:26:12 GMT 2001


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 dan_mcmanus at co.blm.gov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded samba-latest.tar.gz from http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/  and
> my anti-virus software said it was infected, but didn't clean it, so I
> deleted it. I downloaded it onto a Windows NT machine. I don't know whether
> it's my software freaking out or an actual problem with the file, but I
> thought I should let you know.

It's source code.  There are no executables in it.  What virus
scanner are
you using?





Cheers, jerry
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