Strawberry 5.10.1.0 (2009/10): presumably mistaken virus detection

[email protected] ("Thomas L. Shinnick")
Newsgroups perl.win32.vanilla
Message-ID <[email protected]>
My Kaspersky virus detection popped up with
     10/24/2010 1:33:16 PM       Detected: 
Worm.Win32.Qvod.chj   C:\strawberry\perl\bin\a2p.exe

No other files were 'detected'.  The most recent 5.12.1 strawberry 
had no such detection.

I've scanned all these files long before now, so presumably this is a 
newly updated detection database getting it wrong.  I think I'll just 
wait a few days and rescan...

(I've never much trusted any antivirus detection after the *string* 
"Serv-U Daemon" caused McAfee to unconditionally *destroy* every file 
containing such.  Including my documents merely describing the 10+ 
year old Perl programs.  I bet the McAfee people run backups every 
hour and save the last 30 days' worth.  Such quality...)



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