[Libreoffice] [Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC2 available

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at suse.com
Wed Jan 25 12:09:44 PST 2012


On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 14:54 +0100, Rainer Bielefeld wrote:
> I got a virus alert, please see "[Bug 45227] New: Virus Kazy.7720 
> detected on installation By Bit defender"

	Grief - these are random, depend on the virus checker and are simply
impossible to guard against.

> Might be a pest if lots of uses see the same message.

	Yep - but without some hard-core details ~impossible to defend against.
Many virus checkers do the moral equivalent of:

	"can we find these sequence of bytes: 0x13 0x67 0xfe 0x78"

	if so it must be the foo virus ! ;-)

	unfortunately, given the number of these things, the short sequences
that are often checked for etc. etc. the # of false-positives is really
rather high, and it's unclear if we can really work around them. Then
again, the way compression works - hopefully if we just change the
version number to rc3 - perhaps it'll perturb the bit causing the
grief ;-)

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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