Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:42:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: ringil3 AT hotmail DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Download problems
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 ringil3 AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

> A few weeks ago I heard about DJGPP compiler, and recently downloaded it
> from the tasmanian government mirror.  When extracting DJDEV201.ZIP on my
> win95 machine, ThunderByte AV (V 8.00) interrupted some files, claiming
> that they contained "unknown viruses".  The files and the messages TBAV
> gave are listed below.  Is this just part of the files, or are they
> infected with something nasty.

You have nothing to worry about (except maybe your virus checker).  
DJGPP's stub loader (a short DOS program prepended to each DJGPP .exe 
program) uses some clever techniques to make its code as small as 
possible.  Some virus checkers find such techniques suspicious and alert 
you.

If the mirror you used is one of SimTel.NET mirrors, they are all 
virus-proof, since the operators are very pedantic in checking uploaded 
stuff (you cannot upload directly unless you are one of the trusted 
people).