[nvda] Re: NVDA Virus Information

Well for the record I did a shell scan of nvda files and the installer and I 
didn't find anything.
At 01:11 p.m. 26/05/2007, you wrote:

>Hello Mick:
>
>Thanks for mentioning this. I thought it was something I had done to NVDA. My 
>virus checker found a couple of Trojans and got rid of them.  Hopefully, there 
>are no more.  Something like this was probably bound to happen at some point 
>and I'm just glad it's been caught early.
>
>Best of luck to you, Jamie and team
>
>Debra
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 7:11 PM
>Subject: [nvda] NVDA Virus Information
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Firstly, I apologise for what has happened with Viruses being detected in 
>>NVDA over the last day or so with AVG (and possibley others).
>>
>>Thank you to Michel and others who have tracked it down to py2exe.
>>
>>It so happens that Py2exe (the tool we use to compile NVDA in to a program, 
>>from Python source files) has a virus in its latest version.
>>
>>Version 0.6.6 of Py2exe has the virus, where as 0.6.5, which was used in NVDA 
>>r425 and earlier, does not.
>>
>>I don't know if this is a false positive or not, however the fact remains 
>>that virus checkers are throwing up this alert and this is not good.
>>
>>NVDA can be recompiled easily enough with the older Py2exe tool, however I 
>>don't personally build the NVDA releases and snapshots, this is a task that 
>>Jamie performs.
>>
>>I will let Jamie know that a new NVDA 0.5 needs to be built, and we might 
>>also remove the old snapshots and rebuild a latest one.
>>
>>This may take some time so please bear with us.
>>
>>Thanks for your understanding
>>Mick
>>
>>
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>>Thank you for your continued support of Nonvisual Desktop Access, an open 
>>source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows:
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>>To get the latest NVDA snapshot:
>>http://www.nvda-project.org/snapshots/
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>>
>>-- 
>>No virus found in this incoming message.
>>Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/818 - 
>>Release Date: 5/25/2007 12:32 PM
>>
>
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>source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows:
>http://www.nvda-project.org/
>To get the latest NVDA snapshot:
>http://www.nvda-project.org/snapshots/
>Report bugs or make feature requests at:
>http://trac.nvda-project.org/
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>
>
>
>-- 
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/818 - 
>Release Date: 25/05/2007 12:32 p.m.



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Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/818 - Release Date: 25/05/2007 12:32 
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