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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 1365] File conftest.exe from pcre-8.33.zip is identified as a trojan virus
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365




--- Comment #3 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2013-06-07 15:27:56 ---
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Jouni Laakso wrote:

> MinGW is a "Minimalist GNU for Windows" GCC -compiler which is free and easy to
> get. Platform is Windows and exe was compiled from the source code of the pcre
> -packet.


What is "pcre -packet"? That is not part of the PCRE distribution that
I put out. Where did you get your pcre-8.33.zip file from? How did you
compile it (./configure or cmake or what)?

> I guess the compiled conftest program (is there a conftest?)


There is no such thing as conftest in the PCRE distribution tarball that
I release.

> Maby it should be mentioned in an INSTALL -file or release notes if it's just a
> property of a test.


This is not normal. We need to find where this conftest file came from.

Aha! I had a thought, and Googled "conftest". Looks like it is a file
that gets generated by the ./configure system for checking compiler
options. I didn't know about that.

So I don't think it is a virus. That's good news. Nobody has ever
reported this before, but perhaps not many people run the kind of virus
checker that you do.

Philip


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