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2004 Dec 11
2
Security exploit downloaded with FLAC?
As is my routine every couple of weeks, I ran Pest Patrol anti-spyware software, and was disturbed to find it came back saying that the file FLAC/COPYING.FDL was a security exploit known as "Virus Tutorial" or VTool/jul2. This has left me wondering if FLAC is to be trusted. Here's what PestPatrol's web site has to say about it: Exploit: A way of breaking into a system. An exploit takes advantage of a weakness in a system in order to hack it. Exploits are the root of the hacker culture. Hackers gain fa...
2004 Dec 11
0
Security exploit downloaded with FLAC?
...11, 2004 at 07:37:40PM -0500, Helen Glazer wrote: > As is my routine every couple of weeks, I ran Pest Patrol anti-spyware > software, and was disturbed to find it came back saying that the file > FLAC/COPYING.FDL was a security exploit known as "Virus Tutorial" or > VTool/jul2. This has left me wondering if FLAC is to be trusted. Well, since the file in question is just a text file, my guess is that this is a false positive, where it just happens to contain something similar to a known malware program. You don't say which FLAC package you downloaded, but there i...