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From: James Holsenback
Subject: poseray virus?
Date: 24 Jul 2015 14:43:28
Message: <55b28750$1@news.povray.org>
got a new windoze machine and went to download poseray and it's telling 
me that it's infected with a virus!!!

couple of weeks ago i downloaded latest version and it downloaded fine 
and i've been running it under wine on my nix machine. thinking it might 
be my windoze machine av and/or ie blocking it so i went there on my nix 
machine using firefox and get the same message

the first two entries in older version list also give the virus notice 
so i stopped there

inquiring minds wanna know??


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: poseray virus?
Date: 24 Jul 2015 16:22:45
Message: <55b29e95$1@news.povray.org>
On 7/24/2015 7:43 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
> got a new windoze machine and went to download poseray and it's telling
> me that it's infected with a virus!!!
>
> couple of weeks ago i downloaded latest version and it downloaded fine
> and i've been running it under wine on my nix machine. thinking it might
> be my windoze machine av and/or ie blocking it so i went there on my nix
> machine using firefox and get the same message
>
> the first two entries in older version list also give the virus notice
> so i stopped there
>
> inquiring minds wanna know??


What's telling you? Which AV prog?

povwin-3.7-agpl3-setup.exe downloaded fine for me.

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Regards
     Stephen


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From: Alain
Subject: Re: poseray virus?
Date: 24 Jul 2015 21:17:35
Message: <55b2e3af$1@news.povray.org>
Le 15-07-24 14:43, James Holsenback a écrit :
> got a new windoze machine and went to download poseray and it's telling
> me that it's infected with a virus!!!
>
> couple of weeks ago i downloaded latest version and it downloaded fine
> and i've been running it under wine on my nix machine. thinking it might
> be my windoze machine av and/or ie blocking it so i went there on my nix
> machine using firefox and get the same message
>
> the first two entries in older version list also give the virus notice
> so i stopped there
>
> inquiring minds wanna know??

Most likely a false positive from Google drive that is hosting the file.
Just got the same warning.



Alain


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