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Git download --- Virus
r***@pp.inet.fi
2014-10-16 09:35:33 UTC
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Hi

I downloaded and started to Install Git.

There is a Virus on you setup.
Program that appears to have trojan-like features or behavior.

Git/bin/pdfinfo.exe

trojan.generic.[variant], gen:trojan.[variant]

Why???

Br.

Risto
Konstantin Khomoutov
2014-10-16 09:48:36 UTC
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:35:33 +0300 (EEST)
Post by r***@pp.inet.fi
I downloaded and started to Install Git.
There is a Virus on you setup.
Program that appears to have trojan-like features or behavior.
Git/bin/pdfinfo.exe
trojan.generic.[variant], gen:trojan.[variant]
Why???
Because your antivirus software applies its (seemingly imperfect)
heuristics and thinks there's a virus while there's none.

To state this in a more blunt way: no there's no any virus in the Git
for Windows installation package.

The other possibility is you obtaining the installation package from
a place other than http://git-scm.com or some malware active on your
computer is changing the packages you're downloading on the fly. The
latter is highly unlikely though.

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