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Subject:	RE: PERL's Encode::Byte is being flagged by AVGfree as WIN32/PolyCrypt anyonelse
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:57:45 +0100
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On 09 August 2007 17:32, David Arnstein wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:43:18PM -0700, William Deegan wrote:
>> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Yes. Last night, AVG (paid version) detected a massive 131
> Win32/PolyCrypt infections, mostly in Cygwin files.

  Yep, got that too, in a bunch of DLLs.  Also, it managed to trip on a random
selection of self-compiled object and library (.o and .a) files.

> I suspect false positive here. 

  Yes, we've established that beyond any reasonable doubt.

> I emailed a request for help to the vendor.

  I also reported this and had back a reply saying their engineers have a fix
and we should expect to see it in tonight's signature file update.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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