[Zlib-devel] Fwd: Avast reports minigzip_d.exe is infected

[Mark Adler]

All,

This seems unlikely, but can someone check to see if the minigzip executable in zlib125-dll.zip has any unexpected code in it?

Mark


Begin forwarded message:
> From: Cory Riddell <cory at codeware.com>
> Date: September 19, 2011 9:25:16 AM PDT
> To: zlib at gzip.org
> Subject: Avast reports minigzip_d.exe is infected
> 
> The anti-virus scanner Avast thinks test\minigzip_d.exe is infected with
> "Win32:Flooder-HD [Tri]". When I searched for more information on this I
> found another report here:
> http://v.virscan.org/Win32:Flooder-HD%20[Trj].html
> 
> This file is inside your compiled zlib DLL package.
> 
> Has this been reported to you before? The version of Avast that found
> this is 110919-0, 09/19/2011.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cory Riddell
> Codeware
> 
>