[protext] Virus warning for ProTexXt-3.1.4-020114.exe

[jdc843@sccoast.net .]

I am far from being an expert on viruses and virus scanners. I just execute
the scanners like any other ignorant Windows user :)
The other alert that I had was on SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe ADW_OPENCANDY
listed as spyware. I think that is a CD/DVD burning program that I
installed about a year ago. If that was the source, then it's had a long
time to do it's dirty work :(

I got an alert so I alerted you. If no real problem then great, sorry to
bother you.

Nice work on ProText. I haven't used it recently. I still have a lot to
learn how to use it. On one document using the same font as in a MS Word
document, ProText generated text that had thinner lines. IMHO that made the
text harder to read. But it sure soundly beat Word in formatting the text!
I tried to study how fonts were made several years back. I gave up: too
complicated and really not that interesting. But vital to computers, books,
etc. I will use ProText again.

Regards,
John Coleman


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:24 AM, hoeppner-klaus at t-online.de <
hoeppner-klaus at t-online.de> wrote:

> I uploaded the file to virustotal.com, and Trend Micro is the only of 53
> used scanners that detects anything.
>
> Taking into account the term HEURistic in the reported result and the
> really vague detail information of the "virus" I would safely assume
> everything is fine (not mentioning that the file is more than 10 years old,
> thus if the file really did something bad it would have waited a real long
> time).
>
>
>
> Bye
>
> Klaus
>
>
>
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> Betreff: [protext] Virus warning for ProTexXt-3.1.4-020114.exe
>
> Datum: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:41:26 +0200
>
> Von: "jdc843 at sccoast.net ." <jdc843 at sccoast.net>
>
> An: <protext at tug.org>
>
>
>
>
>  17 Oct 2014 - MY ISP informs me that my computer system is sourcing spam
> and viruses.
>
> Performed a full scan of my system using a virus scanner from Trend Micro
>
> Affected file: Downloads\ProTeX\MiKTeX\tm\packages\ecards.cab\eCardstst.pdf
>
> More Information:
> http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/apac/malware/heur_pdfexp.b
>
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