Hello,
after some time I've updated my local 'grss6_devel' branch and during
building (in the initial configuration step) I am getting warning from my
antivirus app (AVG 9) that in OSGeo4W\usr\src\grass6_devel\conftest.exe
there is potentially harmfull program Exploit.DEM.
I've tried to find the file in this path on my disk but without any success
(it is not present also in a 'safe-deposit'). Can I ignore this message?
Regards,
Jan
Jan Tosovsky wrote:
after some time I've updated my local 'grss6_devel' branch and during
building (in the initial configuration step) I am getting warning from my
antivirus app (AVG 9) that in OSGeo4W\usr\src\grass6_devel\conftest.exe
there is potentially harmfull program Exploit.DEM.I've tried to find the file in this path on my disk but without any success
(it is not present also in a 'safe-deposit'). Can I ignore this message?
"conftest.exe" is the default name of any test programs created by the
configure script (on Windows; on other platforms, it's just called
"conftest").
Most of the test programs aren't even executed; configure simply
attempts to compile and link a test program in order to check that the
compilation and linking switches are correct. The programs are deleted
once the test is complete.
If the program isn't being run (only a handful are), the test will
succeed so long as the linker doesn't return an error status. I
suspect that AVG probably won't scan the file until it's complete, so
the test should succeed even if AVG deletes or quarantines the file.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>