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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:18:11 +0000
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On Thu Aug 09 15:58:57 2007, gthorpe AT ryerson DOT ca wrote:
> Gary Thorpe wrote:
[...]
> > Eventually, I tried a different mirror (mirrors.kernel.org) 
> > and this did not recur.
> > 
[...]
> 
> Feedback from AVG suggests this is in fact a false positive (the next
> updates of the program's database should confirm this).
> 

It is interesting, though, that it detected it on one file downloaded (from us) but not from 
kernel.org.  You mentioned that the MD5 checksum verified correctly on the one you 
downloaded from us--did the same file from kernel.org have a different checksum?

-- 
Eric Searcy
OSU Open Source Lab



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