[Libreoffice] True Trojans or false positives ?

Dmitry. A. Ashkadov dmitry.ashkadov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 06:11:59 PDT 2011


Hello!

If the files will be XORed then during testing they will be unXORed. I 
think, antiviruses can handle unXORed files and block testing.

27.09.2011 14:54, Thorsten Behrens пишет:
> dionysien wrote:
>> Immediately 'Autoprotect' (from Symantec, on win XP) claimed to detect and
>> move to quarantine a series of Trojans (7) plus 'Bloodhound.Exploit.108'
>> plus 'Bloodhound.Exploit.359', all allegedly from directory
>>
> Hi Jean-François,
>
> those are harmless test files from the Writer unit tests, to prevent
> fixed security bugs to re-appear. Signature-based virus scanners may
> raise false positives there.
>
> If that's enough of a nuisance for enough people, Caolan suggested
> already to e.g. xor them with something, to make the warning go
> away. Something you'd want to look into?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Thorsten
>
>
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-- 
Best Regards,
     Dmitry

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