Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart

Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart

[Willi Egger]

Hi,

I know this has been asked before, only that I did not experience the 
problem ...

Since months I use Bitdefender antivirus software. I never experienced 
any problem running texmfstart. However since three days Bitdefender 
thinks, that the executable texmfstart from 27-07- 2005 contains a 
Trojan. I checked the size of texmfstart.exe. I got an older version 
which is 580kB the one which gives problems has 596kB. Copying the older 
version into the tex-tree works fine and Bitdefender does not complain.
First question is: which is the actual version and size of texmfstart.exe?
Provided that there is nothing wrong with texmfstart.exe with the size 
of 596kB should I contact the Bitdefender developpers?

Kind regards
Willi

Re: Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart

[Hans Hagen]

Willi Egger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this has been asked before, only that I did not experience the 
> problem ...
>
> Since months I use Bitdefender antivirus software. I never experienced 
> any problem running texmfstart. However since three days Bitdefender 
> thinks, that the executable texmfstart from 27-07- 2005 contains a 
> Trojan. I checked the size of texmfstart.exe. I got an older version 
> which is 580kB the one which gives problems has 596kB. Copying the 
> older version into the tex-tree works fine and Bitdefender does not 
> complain.
> First question is: which is the actual version and size of 
> texmfstart.exe?
> Provided that there is nothing wrong with texmfstart.exe with the size 
> of 596kB should I contact the Bitdefender developpers?


this exe file is just the ruby dll + some ruby scripts in a 
self-unzipping  (on a temp path) format; so, it's most is not really  
executable code (which is what they assume from the exe) but compressed 
ruby code (which should be treated as such)

Hans