[GRASS-dev] grass from osgeo4w gets caught from antivirus

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[cavallini at faunalia.it]> wrote:

Markus Neteler ha scritto:

Not sure but it is unlikely that you just need better antivirus
software :slight_smile:

Not me! :slight_smile: Just "enterprise" stuff, you know...
All the best.

Sure!

But see also here:

[>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-windows/2010-January/001977.html\]
[>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-windows/2010-January/001981.html\]

Markus

these days i had similar problems with norton/symantec-antivirus
and self compiled grass64 on windows.

see a little discussion on the symantec-forum

http://de.community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/GRASS-GIS-trusted-program/td-p/513
(sorry only in german)
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/GRASS-GIS-trusted-program/m-p/193510

IMHO it's not a task of a great open source software to work for the inadequacy of a operating system or anti-virus-software.

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Helmut wrote:

IMHO it's not a task of a great open source software to
work for the inadequacy of a operating system or
anti-virus-software.

(except in cases where it costs us little to do the effected users
a big favour)

fyi I added something about this to the wingrass errata wiki.

Hamish