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GWT 1.5 Available with Detected Malware

GWT 1.5 final has just become available for download. In what must be a false positive, Avira AntiVir (one of the best antivirus programs for Windows) complains about HEUR/HTML.Malware during the scanning of gwt-windows-1.5.2.zip. Hopefully, the GWT team will take care of the problem quickly.

http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/files/gwt-windows-1.5.2.zip

16 Files were classified as suspicious:

1 Warnings

My policy is to scan every download from every site, including the well-known sites. This is the first time an open source download resulted in a warning. Does your virus scanner detect anything in the GWT Windows 1.5.2 download?

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2 Responses to “GWT 1.5 Available with Detected Malware”

  1. Jons Says:
    August 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    Yes, I noticed that with the previous RC release. I don’t think it’s something Google has to fix … I think it’s something AntiVir should fix. The particular heuristic algorithm is giving a false positive (as you noted).

  2. admin Says:
    September 5th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    @Jons

    I checked GWT Windows 1.5.2 again a few days after release, and the new AntiVir scan reported no problem. It looks like Avira fixed the false positive problem with an update. Just out of curiosity I tested GWT Windows 1.5.1 as well, and it is clean too.