Virus threath in windown version - qgis-0.8.0-win32-060724.zip -

[qgib]

Author Name: gamendol-yahoo-com - (gamendol-yahoo-com -)
Original Redmine Issue: 396

Redmine category:grass
Assignee: Redmine Admin

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After downloading the version for Windows, qgis-0.8.0-win32-060724.zip, in the atempt of unziping it, I was stoped by a report of the AVG Free Edition (Grisoft) for a Warning: Hidden extension.exe - r.out.mpeg.exe -
Could you tell me more about this?
Sorry for my poor english.

gamendol@yahoo.com

[qgib]

Author Name: anonymous - (anonymous -)

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It's a bug in Microsoft Windows. To have executable file in Windows You must have .exe suffix, on UNIX like systems You can execute any file with executable bit set (i.e. readme.txt can be a program). To make GRASS modules executable, a .exe suffix was added to all GRASS modules and some antivirus software thinks that it is a new virus.

Only solution is to whitelist all GRASS modules in antivirus.

An in future please use SEARCH, as similar bug was closed less than month a go.

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• resolution was changed from to invalid
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed