Re: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs 21.1 released - MS Windows distribution available

[Andrew Innes]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:33:08 -0500, Howard Melman <address@hidden> said:

> On  Nov 5, 2001, Andrew Innes wrote:
> 
> > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> > that has been posted to gnu.emacs.announce,gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs as 
> > well.
> > 
> > The precompiled Windows distribution of GNU Emacs 21.1 is now available.
> > It can be found at
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/latest
> > 
> > and on the mirrors of that site.  Please see the following document for
> > more information on obtaining and installing Emacs 21.1:
> > 
> >   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/README
> > 
> > Also, please note that the MS Windows port of Emacs does not have
> > support for inline images, tool bars, tooltips, or sound in this
> > release.  Most other new features are available.
> 
> I downloaded this to give a shot (thank's Andrew) and when I
> used WinZip on it I recieved this virus warning:
> 
>   The file e:\emacs\emacs-21.1\bin\emacs.exe is infected with
>   W95/Coke.22231 Virus.  Unable to clean the file using the current Scan
>   engine version 4.0.50 DAT version 4.0.4168.(from ABSOLUT IP
>   10.129.101.19 user BRILLIANT\howard running NetShield 2000 4.5 OAS)
> 
> I vaguely remember something about a bogus virus warning
> with some version of Emacs some time ago, is this that?  Or
> could this binary be infected?  My virus datafile is
> up-to-date but my virus checker is a bit old and certainly a
> bit flakey.  Has anyone else seen this?

I built Emacs on a machine which has a virus scanner that is regularly
updated, so I doubt that any of the actual binaries are infected.  (I've
double checked now.  I'm running Trend Officescan, pattern 165.
However, it doesn't include "W95/Coke.22231" in its list, so I can't say
for sure about that.)

AndrewI