On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:50 AM, John A. Wallace wrote:

After downloading that build of GIMP for Windows, I got a malware alert from AVG 2012 about part of it containing a Trojan. I have attached a screenshot of the alert. Any ideas about that? Thanks.

Yes, several.
a) It's not one of our semi-official builds you get from gimp-win.sourceforge.net, go get one from there. b) Contact whoever provided that build, sometimes there are false positives. However, since its a build from god knows where, id take the warning seriously. Malware distributors just love packing their crap into installers of well known free apps.

John:
That build is from Partha. I'm pretty sure that it's a false positive, since he has been contribuiting with builds for some time and nobody had problems with his builds. Just in case, contact him and ask him about this warning.

As I mentioned above, you shouldn't report problems with unofficial builds to devs, and this is exactly the case.

Anyway, there's a build of 2.8 RC1 available here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html as Alexia just pointed out.

Gez.

Looks like Gez has a direct line to who knows who. :)

Yes, my builds were uploaded to Graphicall.org by one of the users. I have looked into these reports and they are all false. One user reported running the build through a lot of so called detectors. Some of them claim there are trojans in other parts of Gimp as well such as twain.exe. In any case, as the other poster suggested, perhaps the official builds guarantees that the builds pass all detectors tests and so please feel free to delete this version and use the official version.

I have a write-up on this on my website and there is a whole lot of discussion on Flickr as well.

Thanks, Partha

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, gespertino@gmail.com wrote:

John:
That build is from Partha. I'm pretty sure that it's a false positive, since he has been contribuiting with builds for some time and nobody had problems with his builds. Just in case, contact him and ask him about this warning.

As I mentioned above, you shouldn't report problems with unofficial builds to devs, and this is exactly the case.

Anyway, there's a build of 2.8 RC1 available here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html as Alexia just pointed out.

Gez.

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2012/4/10 Partha Bagchi

Looks like Gez has a direct line to who knows who. :)

Nah, I'm just following the news closely and read some comments here and there.
One of those comments was "Partha we love you", so I guess you aren't a bad guy spreading malware after all ;-)

Well, alrighty then. Sorry if I caused a ruckus as that was surely not my intention. I just wanted to throw it out there to test the waters before deciding whether to install this thing. Thanks for all the feedback. I will step softly out of the fray now. I do appreciate the value you all give to this fine product. Take care.

John

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From: Partha Bagchi [mailto:partha1b@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:25 PM To: gespertino@gmail.com
Cc: Alexia Death; John A. Wallace; gimp-developer-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.5 released

Looks like Gez has a direct line to who knows who. :)

Yes, my builds were uploaded to Graphicall.org by one of the users. I have looked into these reports and they are all false. One user reported running

the

build through a lot of so called detectors. Some of them claim there are

trojans

in other parts of Gimp as well such as twain.exe. In any case, as the other poster suggested, perhaps the official builds guarantees that the builds pass all detectors tests and so please feel free to delete this version and use the official version.

I have a write-up on this on my website and there is a whole lot of discussion on Flickr as well.

Thanks,
Partha

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, gespertino@gmail.com wrote:

John:
That build is from Partha. I'm pretty sure that it's a false positive, since he has been contribuiting with builds for some time and nobody had problems with his builds. Just in case, contact him and ask him about

this

warning.

As I mentioned above, you shouldn't report problems with unofficial builds to devs, and this is exactly the case.

Anyway, there's a build of 2.8 RC1 available here: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html as Alexia just pointed out.

Gez.

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