Pidgin infected?

[Daniel Atallah]

On 8/18/07, Joel F. Watts IV <joel_iv at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Every time I try to download Pidgin, my anti-virus software shows it to be
> infected w/ a backdoor Trojan.  I am sending a screen capture of the
> problem.


This is almost certainly a false positive.  This comes up occasionally
- because Pidgin uses the NSIS installer framework, which has also
been used by some trojans, virus scanners are occasionally
misconfigured, triggering a false positive.  See the NSIS page about
this here: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives

As a precaution, I scanned the release files with an online scanner
and came up with the following results:

A-Squared  	Found nothing
AntiVir 	Found nothing
ArcaVir 	Found nothing
Avast 		Found nothing
AVG Antivirus 	Found nothing
BitDefender 	Found nothing
ClamAV 		Found nothing
CPsecure 	Found nothing
Dr.Web 		Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus	Found W32/Backdoor.BLOU
F-Secure Anti-Virus 	Found nothing
Fortinet 	Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 	Found nothing
NOD32 		Found nothing
Norman Virus Control 	Found nothing
Panda Antivirus Found nothing
Rising Antivirus 	Found nothing
Sophos Antivirus 	Found nothing
VirusBuster 	Found nothing
VBA32 		Found nothing

Apparently F-Prot is known to be more likely to have false positives.

-D