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avast4workstation: probable false-positive
« on: August 14, 2007, 06:28:17 PM »
Hello:

My latest scan reported the following:
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Archived /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo/PartNo_0#860842075  [infected by: Nutcracker family]        repair error: File can't be repairedAdditional info:
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[Vince@presario ~/.avast]$ ls -lh /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 993 Feb  9  2007 /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo
[Vince@presario ~/.avast]$ file /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 7 messages
[Vince@presario ~/.avast]$ clamscan /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/redhat-artwork.mo: OK

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 251569
Engine version: 0.91.1
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 1
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Time: 4.579 sec (0 m 4 s)
[Vince@presario ~/.avast]$
I'm quite sure that this is a false-positive, so I'm posting this info here.

Thanx and Regards,
Vince

avast4workstation-1.0.8-1.i586.rpm
VPS: 400.vps 765-1, 8-13-2007
GNU/Linux FC6 2.6.22.1-32.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Aug 1 15:15:33 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux