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Re: Git download --- Virus

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KKKonstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
Date
Oct 16, 2014, 09:48 UTC
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:35:33 +0300 (EEST) "risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi" <risto.makiniemi@pp.inet.fi> wrote:

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> 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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  2. Konstantin KhomoutovOct 16, 2014

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