Hi Sally.

Sally Davies (sa.davies@talktalk.net) wrote:

I've recently installed GIMP - in June 2016. My antivirus software is AVG. It has picked up corrupted GIMP files, saying that there is a generic virus involved:

Where exactly did you download Gimp?

Please note that there are tons of download sites, that might very well host a malware-injected package of gimp. We strongly encourage downloading from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ for that very reason.

I hope this helps, Simon

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On 07/06/2016 06:55 PM, Simon Budig wrote:

Hi Sally.

Sally Davies (sa.davies@talktalk.net) wrote:

I've recently installed GIMP - in June 2016. My antivirus software is AVG. It has picked up corrupted GIMP files, saying that there is a generic virus involved:

Where exactly did you download Gimp?

Please note that there are tons of download sites, that might very well host a malware-injected package of gimp. We strongly encourage downloading from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ for that very reason.

I might add that "generic virus" appears to indicate that heuristics detected something that looks like a virus (or worm or exploit or...) to AVG but is not in its virus signature database. AVG itself has a history of "downhill progress" over the last several years and I have recently seen indications that it tends to throw false positive virus warnings.

I would recommend uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Avast, as a first step in troubleshooting "generic" virus reports from AVG. Needless to say, download programs only from the websites of their original makers, etc. etc.

:o)

On 6 July 2016 at 20:23, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 07/06/2016 06:55 PM, Simon Budig wrote:

Hi Sally.

Sally Davies (sa.davies@talktalk.net) wrote:

I've recently installed GIMP - in June 2016. My antivirus software is AVG. It has picked up corrupted GIMP files, saying that there is a generic virus involved:

Where exactly did you download Gimp?

Please note that there are tons of download sites, that might very well host a malware-injected package of gimp. We strongly encourage downloading from http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ for that very reason.

I might add that "generic virus" appears to indicate that heuristics detected something that looks like a virus (or worm or exploit or...) to AVG but is not in its virus signature database. AVG itself has a history of "downhill progress" over the last several years and I have recently seen indications that it tends to throw false positive virus warnings.

I would recommend uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Avast, as a first step in troubleshooting "generic" virus reports from AVG. Needless to say, download programs only from the websites of their original makers, etc. etc.

It looks like Avast is replacing AVG with Avast: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/07/avast-acquires-rival-avg-for-1-3-billion-to-create-a-security-software-giant/

:o)

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On 07/07/2016 10:19 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

I would recommend uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Avast, as a first step in troubleshooting "generic" virus reports from AVG. Needless to say, download programs only from the websites of their original makers, etc. etc.

It looks like Avast is replacing AVG with Avast: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/07/avast-acquires-rival-avg-for-1-3-billion-to-create-a-security-software-giant/

I seem to recall something about AVG getting bought & sold a couple of times during the process of its deterioration. Last I heard Avast was still working tolerably well. I also hear good things about Kaspersky, but have never seen it in action.

It's been a couple of years since I messed with any of the above, and then, only when cleaning out other people's machines. The problems all of the above attempt to control are unique to Microsoft products, and I ran out of practical uses for those a decade or so ago.

:o)

I have used Kaspersky for several years now and found it to be very, very good.

Rick

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Kinney
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 11:16 AM Cc: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP files - corrupted by generic virus?

On 07/07/2016 10:19 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:

I would recommend uninstalling AVG and replacing it with Avast, as a first step in troubleshooting "generic" virus reports from AVG. Needless to say, download programs only from the websites of their original makers, etc. etc.

It looks like Avast is replacing AVG with Avast: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/07/avast-acquires-rival-avg-for-1-3-billion-to-create-a-security-software-giant/

I seem to recall something about AVG getting bought & sold a couple of times during the process of its deterioration. Last I heard Avast was still working tolerably well. I also hear good things about Kaspersky, but have never seen it in action.

It's been a couple of years since I messed with any of the above, and then, only when cleaning out other people's machines. The problems all of the above attempt to control are unique to Microsoft products, and I ran out of practical uses for those a decade or so ago.

:o)

On 07/06/2016 10:57 AM, Sally Davies wrote:

I've recently installed GIMP - in June 2016. My antivirus software is AVG. It has picked up corrupted GIMP files, saying that there is a generic virus involved:

What files were this?

Regards,
Michael
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