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BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 11.11.2014, 00:44

> Uh the "Avira antivirus" went mad about the download Bochs-2.6.7.exe
> saying it is or contains "TR/Dropper.Gen"!
> Though I would trust Sourceforge not to point to infected downloads,
> I'd like second advices !
>
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.6.7
>
> I got file "Bochs-2.6.7.exe" 4,988,462 bytes
> md5sum : 6bd870625f8346021c0e0c620dd55980
>
> Opinions ?

Did you forget that most antiviruses have tons of false positives due to bad heuristics? See here.

Also, did you forget about Virus Total? A quick (re)scan online shows only one out of 55 complaining (guess which one).


SHA256:         0bc168b5e3dfd7733ed793fd8b7aff1ee8059ba8f4f57fff2237927ead7127a9
File name:      Bochs-2.6.7.exe
Detection ratio:        1 / 55
Analysis date:  2014-11-10 23:27:26 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )



(Mon Nov 10, 05:26 PM) /tmp/doydoy # ls -log
total 4884
-rw-r--r-- 1 4988462 2014-11-10 17:26 Bochs-2.6.7.exe
(Mon Nov 10, 05:26 PM) /tmp/doydoy # md5sum *
6bd870625f8346021c0e0c620dd55980  Bochs-2.6.7.exe


Complete thread:

• BOCHS 2.5 released 2011-11-29 - DOS386, 15.12.2011, 08:57 (Announce)
  • BOCHS 2.5.1 released 2012-01-06 - DOS386, 15.01.2012, 04:38
    • BOCHS 2.5.1 released 2012-01-06 | DOS - DOS386, 16.01.2012, 06:38
      • BOCHS 2.6 released 2012-09-02 | DOS - DOS386, 25.09.2012, 10:52
        • BOCHS 2.6.1 released 2013-04-09 | DOS - DOS386, 14.04.2013, 16:46
          • BOCHS 2.6.1 released 2013-04-09 | DOS | test - DOS386, 17.04.2013, 12:31
            • BOCHS 2.6.2 released - DOS386, 05.06.2013, 03:56
              • BOCHS 2.6.3 awaited (not necessarily soon) - DOS386, 24.06.2013, 15:45
                • BOCHS 2.6.6 is out - 2014-Jun-15 - DOS386, 13.07.2014, 12:46
                  • BOCHS 2.6.6 is out - 2014-Jun-15 - Rugxulo, 13.07.2014, 23:12
                    • BOCHS 2.6.6 is out - 2014-Jun-15 - DOS386, 15.07.2014, 10:37
                      • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - DOS386, 10.11.2014, 04:14
                        • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Ninho, 10.11.2014, 22:19
                          • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2014, 00:44
                            • VIRUS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - DOS386, 11.11.2014, 18:37
                              • VIRUS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Ninho, 11.11.2014, 19:52
                                • VIRUS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 12.11.2014, 01:28
                          • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2014, 00:53
                            • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2014, 23:52
                              • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Ninho, 12.11.2014, 00:08
                                • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 12.11.2014, 01:33
                                  • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - DOS386, 12.11.2014, 09:08
                                    • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Ninho, 12.11.2014, 10:16
                                      • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 23.11.2014, 22:47
                                      • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - Rugxulo, 26.11.2014, 22:04
                                      • yet another false positive - Rugxulo, 27.11.2014, 01:24
                                      • BOCHS 2.6.7 is out - 2014-Nov-02 - DOS386, 01.12.2014, 05:00
                                        • BOCHS 2.6.8 is out - 2015-May-03 - DOS386, 17.09.2015, 09:32