Hi Maciej, Several open source projects suffered from false positives. Usually you sent the file to the company having written your Virus detection application for review. It may be a Virus. However it's very unlikely. If you're in doubt you should compile from source and also check the source which was used to compile ghc .. etc. I want to say if you really want to be secure the amount of work is infinity. So I'd sent the file to AntiVir. Then I would go one ignoring the warning (If it *is* a Virus don't make me responsible for any damage - you never know.) I just tell you what I would do. Maybe delete the file and redownload it to make sure that it wasn't modified while traveling through the net? You can also paste the md5sum of those executables. Maybe someone else can verify them easily. Good luck Marc Weber

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 02:33 +0100, Maciej Podgurski wrote:

Hi,

I tried to install happstack via "cabal install happstack" on my WinXP system. While installation progress, my anti-virus software (Avira AntiVir) warned me about dll_hsc_make.exe and files_hsc_make.exe to be a Trojan horse called "TR/Dropper.Gen". It's a bit confusing to get a virus alert while installing Haskell packages. Has anyone experienced this problem? And can I trust these files to be harmless?

Besh wishes,

Maciej

I have virus alert every time I try to install something on Windows. Apparently the virus (in my case) is of form: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { return 0; } I checked haskell-platform sources and found nothing. Regards PS. I had malware something but still...