Anti-virus program detects GNU Public Licence

Posted by dave on Oct 6, 2004 7:59 AM EDT
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Popular open source virus scanner Clamav has been hastily updated this morning to remove a 'false positive': the scanner was detecting the GNU Public Licence as a virus. Thousands of Open Source programs, including Clamav itself, include a copy of this licence, and since it is a plain text file it is incapable of containing a virus.

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