Re: security warnings - possibly off-topic

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On Friday 05 May 2023 15:39:02 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
> On Fri May 5 2023 15:15:59 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> > What I am most concerned about are those .deb files that I downloaded.
> > The clamav testfiles are supposed to ring the bell, I will guess, because
> > they are made to test the program. But the other files are the boot
> > image, so I wonder if that's normal for the boot image to set off the
> > alarms in my antivirus program?
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Clam malware definitions are updated frequently.  Sometimes they detect
> kernels or core dumps as executables but then issue warnings because
> they're not quite what Clam expects of an executable.
>
> --Mike

Thanks, Mike! 

I figured that it must be something like that, though I didn't know why. The 
others I could dismiss for various reasons, but the kernel was unexpected. 

Bill

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