Re: Trojan horse?

["Fabio Mascarenhas" <mascarenhas@...>]

Given incidents such as this one
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html, I would stay on
the safe side and ask the author for source and compile it myself, or
do a "background check". :-) You can also do your test under
virtualization and a watchdog program...

--
Fabio Mascarenhas

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@actcom.co.il> wrote:
>
> Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
>  > The antivirus program I'm using (AVG Free Edition) finds
>  > a trojan horse in the file afx.dll within the following zip:
>  >
>  >  http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/2066/afx-1.0.0-Lua51.zip
>  >
>  > Could somebody verify that with their antivirus program?
>
>  Update: scanning the mentioned zip-file online with
>  21 antivirus programs (http://virusscan.jotti.org/):
>
>  3 programs (AVG, F-Secure Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
>  found malware, other 18 programs found nothing.
>
>  [don't know how to interpret the above results...]
>  --
>  Shmuel
>