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Win.Trojan.Vilsel-4222 in last 2 downloads of Clam AV .EXE
kitfox


Joined: 06 Jun 2014
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Last night clam v 98 found Win.Trojan.Vilsel-4222 in the old .exe install file for Clamwin 0.98. I assumed it was a false positive.

Today I downloaded v98.1 from sourceforge... and when I scanned the install file before executing it, clamwin reports it also is infected with the same trojan.

Is this a false positive?
Is clamwin being infected at the server?
Is this an NSA intercept?

Is there something wrong with sourceforge? I notice the latest version there is 98.1 but the latest version on the clamav.net is 98.3... should be ignore sourceforge and just go with clamav.net?
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GuitarBob


Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: USA
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Anything is possible where the web it concerned, but I doubt if there is an infection at the SourceForge servers, and I doubt that the NSA is interested in ClamWin. So that leaves a probable false positive. If you still have the downloaded file, upload it to Jotti or VirusTotal and see what multiple scanners say. I like to see at least 2 of these AVs verify something: Avira AntiVir, Bitdefender, Eset Nod32, Kaspersky, and Sophos.

You should always use the most recent version of ClamWin, which is currently 98.1. Clam AV issued a release candidate .98.4 bug fix shortly after they released version 98.3, so the ClamWin developers decided to wait until the bugs are fixed to get a port for ClamWin

Thank you for using ClamWin.

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