Beware -- Trojan virus in 0.5.9

nathantw · 04-30-2009, 04:01 PM

Hi all,
I previously tried downloading Calibre 0.5.9 a couple days ago and my virus checker said there was a trojan virus Generic!Artemis. I thought decided to wait a couple days to download it and today I just tried and I got an Artemis virus warning again.

I've done numerous scans on my hard drives so I'm positive my computer was clean before downloading Calibre.

Beware.

kovidgoyal · 04-30-2009, 04:12 PM

That's a false positive, i.e., a mistaken identification by the antivirus program you use. calibre is an open source program, you can always examine the source code yourself to guarantee the absence of malicous code.

nathantw · 04-30-2009, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's a false positive, i.e., a mistaken identification by the antivirus program you use. calibre is an open source program, you can always examine the source code yourself to guarantee the absence of malicous code.

ARGH! I hate when virus checkers do that!

I thought it was weird that you would have a virus on your program, but I was just posting what my computer kept saying. I'll try again.

Thanks.

Nathan

04-30-2009, 04:01 PM	#1
nathantw Zealot Posts: 145 Karma: 230 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: 505	Beware -- Trojan virus in 0.5.9 Hi all, I previously tried downloading Calibre 0.5.9 a couple days ago and my virus checker said there was a trojan virus Generic!Artemis. I thought decided to wait a couple days to download it and today I just tried and I got an Artemis virus warning again. I've done numerous scans on my hard drives so I'm positive my computer was clean before downloading Calibre. Beware.

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04-30-2009, 04:12 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,636 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's a false positive, i.e., a mistaken identification by the antivirus program you use. calibre is an open source program, you can always examine the source code yourself to guarantee the absence of malicous code.

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