Re: Forward of moderated message

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Your virus scanner is broken.  There is no way that the windows files
can be infected since they are built from scratch on a linux
workstation.

Can someone add an entry to the FAQ about this?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:57 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "T.Skeggs" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:45:53 -0000
> Subject: Rootkit found in Lilypond download
> Help!
>
> Does anyone know why my LiliPond-2.12.2-1.mingw  Windows download brought 
> with it:  Rootkit. Win32.TDSS.eyj
> in the following 3 files:
>
> LilyPond\usr\bin\_codecs_hk.dll
> LilyPond\usr\bin\_codecs_kr.dll
> LilyPond\usr\bin\_codecs_tw.dll
>
> These were intercepted and deleted by Kaspersky 2009 (thankfully,despite me 
> telling it to trust the site!)
> A scan of the installation file reveals nothing.
>
> Kaspersky 2009 did warn me that the unistaller for version 11 was not 
> trusted, but I ignored that.
> (It still left the LiliPond-2.11.62-1.mingw installation file logo on the 
> desktop, property size on disc 18Mb)
>
> I ran the simply introductory test on the new version, but couldn't find 
> test.ly on the desktop.
> Then I noticed that all my previous .ly files had disappeared! (black 
> eighth-note logo)
> I opened up a .ly file from another folder, and checked it,and closed it.
> All desktop .ly files had now re-appeared !
> The test.pdf was as expected.
>
> Anybody know what's going on here?
>
> Sincerely,
> Trevor Skeggs
> Beccles
> Suffok UK
>
>



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