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Re: Octave 3.8 Windows release date


From: Pierre Baldensperger
Subject: Re: Octave 3.8 Windows release date
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:48:21 +0100
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On 09/03/2014 10:59, Markus Bergholz wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Pierre Baldensperger wrote:
> On 09/03/2014 07:53, Markus Bergholz wrote:
> > On 01/07/2014 02:29 PM, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso wrote:
> > >
> > > try this unofficial build:
> > > http://octave.osuv.de/3.8/____windows/
> >
> > Works fine with 3.8.0-5 and 3.8.1-1 here on Windows 7.
>
> FWIW I just tried the 3.8.1-1 (portable) under XP and my virus
> scanner (Avira free) told me there is a Trojan Horse
> "Crypt.XPACK.Gen" in "bzip2" and "bzip2_solid" binaries in
> subdirectory "share/nsis/Stubs".
>
> False positive?

wtf? windows xp? srsly?

Yes, seriously.
Caged inside a VMWare Player, mostly for old stuff and testing purposes, under Linux OpenSuSE 13.1 (kernel 3.11 x64). Quite handy to have it close at hand. And still working fast and perfectly fine with 512 MB virtual RAM allocated to the VM. W7 wouldn't even boot its bloated UI under 2 Gigs... let alone start anything like Octave. Got a good'ol' w2k lying around, too.

http://mxeoctave.osuv.de/README.txt

I do a virus check too before publishing

:~/$ clamscan -ri octave-3.8.1/

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 3227234
Engine version: 0.97.8
Scanned directories: 826
Scanned files: 16718
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 804.42 MB
Data read: 634.32 MB (ratio 1.27:1)
Time: 122.761 sec (2 m 2 s)

Definitely looks like a false positive: google search returns other similar harmless detections (Avira seems overly sensitive to this one). I'm pretty sure it's the same situation here, but I let Avira quarantine both files, just in case.

-Pierre.




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