654768 - clamav on windows says it contains W32.Dropper

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Benny Pedersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: 3.1.10

just like to know if its a false alarm on clamav, in that cast submit a bug report to clamav team on windows, i am self unsure how to do this

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install clamav on windows
2. download thunderbird
3. install it

Actual Results:  
clamav now says its contains virus and quarintine it

Expected Results:  
virus free opensource software atleast

let me know if i can help more with more info

Comment 1

[Brandon Sterne (:bsterne)]

This doesn't need to be hidden.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ludo, this ship (3.1.10) is long gone - but didn't we have a case this summer with a different AV?

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)
> ludo, this ship (3.1.10) is long gone - but didn't we have a case this
> summer with a different AV?

Not that I can remember as I test relaeses using virustotal before releasing and when issues are found I contact the AV vendor.