Re: TortoiseCVS-1.11.3.exe INFECTED BY TROJA

Torsten Martinsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.tortoisecvs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
melm wrote:
> Message body follows:
>
> Hi. 
>
>  I recently downloaded the (unstable release) file: 
> TortoiseCVS-1.11.3.exe from the TortoiseCVS project.  The
> URL is:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/files/tortoisecvs-unstable/TortoiseCVS-1.11.3.exe
>
>
> Upon installation, MacAfee flags it for installing a trojan
> file.  Specifically, when the tortoise installer installs
> the CVSNT directory, it lays down a "genkey.exe" file that
> is a trojan.  Our initial analysis of this file seems to
> indicate this is not a false positive, 
Yes, it is. (Note that genkey.exe is a part of the PuTTY suite).

-Torsten

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