#62 closed defect (worksforme)
Trojan in OSgeo Windows download package
| Reported by: | warmerdam | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Component: | Installer |
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Description
Tried to download the OSGeo4w installer at this address: http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup.exe
I'm clear if SonicWall Gateway is installed on the connection here or on your end, but it refuses the download with this message: "This request is blocked by the SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: Delf.DFS_3 (Trojan)"
I'm looking forward to successfully downloading OSGeo.
Alon
Change History (6)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
FYI we tried with BitDefender with updated virus defn and it didn't find anything in the osgeo4w-setup.exe file itself and any of the installed files (installed MapServer, Apache and GDAL).
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
BTW there also was another bug report about a virus in OSGeo4W, which didn't seem to be valid either: http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1560
I locally checked with McAfee, AntiVir and ClamScan and osgeo4w-setup.exe is also clean as far as I can tell. I also fed the URL into http://www.garyshood.com/virus/, which didn't find anything either (using f-prot, antivir, bitdefender, avg and clamscan).
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This appears to be a false alarm.
I'm going to investigate an antivirus solution for download.osgeo.org as time permits.
comment:5 by , 13 years ago
Just to add to documentation in case others hit this. I am running on a Windows 7 machine with latest (trial ver) of Norton security. It quarantined QGIS automatically for me, but only after I tried to fetch plugins. It simply charged it with "suspicious behaviour" before locking up QGIS. You can manually override, but the default was to just do it...even without a warrant or a day in court.. imagine that. :)
Norton scanned osgeo4w and qgis for viruses and didn't have any issues, so it must have been the net access simultaneously hitting various repositories, I guess.
comment:6 by , 13 years ago
Long time ago I have registered the winGRASS standalone package here: http://www.heise.de/software/
They run some 20+ virus scanners on each uploaded software and fetch version update automatically.
Perhaps OSGeo4W could be stored there as well?
I am seeking assistance to test the setup.exe (and also GDAL 1.6 package .exe's) for this virus. Timelyness is important in this regard!