Infected?

[xix]

This is a copy of my email to Google but the response sent me to this
group.

Picasa for linux is possibly infected with a virus. Running
aegis-virus-scanner results in this warning: "The file
/opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Program
Files/wine_gecko/components/appshell.dll is infected with the
W32/Magistr.a@MM virus!".

I saw this posted on a blog
(http://web.mac.com/unicycler/iWeb/ramblings/Blog/08DE6CD1-6B83-4D33-9...)
and decided to give it a test. I've never installed windows on this
machine so it would seem that this was installed with picasa.

[dank]

xix wrote:
> Picasa for linux is possibly infected with a virus. Running
> aegis-virus-scanner results in this warning: "The file
> /opt/picasa/wine/drive_c/Pr ogram
> Files/wine_gecko/components/appshell.dll is infected with the
> W32/Magistr.a@MM virus!".

We ran Symantec's virus scanner, and it didn't find anything.

aegis mentions on its home page (http://jodrell.net/projects/aegis)
that false positives should be reported to the maintainers of
File::Scan,
which aegis is based on.
File::Scan's bug tracking system lists the following bug:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=12970
which says "False positive: W32/Magistr.a@MM".

So it looks like it's a bug in File::Scan / aegis, not a real
infection.
- Dan