Comments on: Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor 0.44 Released

By: Boweeb

Boweeb — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:02:01 +0000

Not sure whether Inkscape or Norton fixed the problem, but action was taken and IT IS FIXED.

By: applegrew

applegrew — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:47:13 +0000

Inkspace looks quite interesting.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:17:53 +0000

I'm with Gez on the false positive call. After checking the bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1515674&group_id=93438&atid=604306 and reading here that only Norton is detecting it (btw Avast doesn't detect it either), Norton seems to be causing the problem by falsly detecting a trojan.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:15:03 +0000

I scanned the windows download I'm using with two different well known scanners and it's clean.

So I wouldn't assume all windows downloads are infected.

By: konrad8ha

konrad8ha — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:52:10 +0000

One more reason why I prefer working on Linux. Not that I ever had problems with trojans on my windows box, but even the thought is scary.

I'd like to add that I consider it rather unlikely that an executable hosted on sourceforge would be infected. I guess this will prove to be a false positive.

By: Gez

Gez — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:22:17 +0000

Thx Mantar! I'll check Checkinstall :-)

Bmud and others (about the virus) I have the win32 version and my AV software didn't find any infection.
I checked with CA eTrust and Clam, and they didn't find anything. It souds as a Symantec False Positive (it woudn't be the first time, though)

By: Gez

Gez — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:21:53 +0000

Thx Mantar! I'll check Checkinstall :-)

By: Mantar

Mantar — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:09:09 +0000

@Gez: In that case, what you need is Checkinstall. You compile a program normally, but then instead of using "make install" (and having to keep the compile directory around to make uninstall later, provided the devs even gave you that option) you run "checkinstall" and it tracks the files and packages them in whatever package format your distro uses. (.Deb, .rpm, or .tgz) It's then installed via your distro's package manager just like any other package. Easily transferred to another machine, too. Just watch your dependencies — checkinstall doesn't track them by itself, but you can manually enter names of packages you want to require.
I'm not a huge fan of autopackage, myself, not since it hosed some of my bash settings on my debian box back when I installed Inkscape 0.43.

By: 86point5

86point5 — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:01:18 +0000

Is it an actual confirmed trojan? I seem to recall something about applications using the NSIS installer being picked up by Norton as a false positive.

AVG didn't pick up anything on the file (though, there's always the possibility of something getting through the cracks).

By: Jeroen/hijothema

Jeroen/hijothema — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:17:11 +0000

additional: because my virusscanner picked out and disabled the trojan I can't install the program. After cleaning Windows can't open the .exe anymore.