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Andreas

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Message 50535 - Posted: 15 Oct 2014, 13:02:39 UTC

I've got a couple of warning from our Antivirus program (Bitdefender) today related to downloaded files.

The downloaded files had Trojan.Generic.1175 in them, and were deleted.

Probably you could check that.
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Richard Haselgrove

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Message 50536 - Posted: 15 Oct 2014, 13:27:42 UTC - in response to Message 50535.  

Unless you give us some identification details - ideally the exact names of the executable files involved, but if they aren't available, the names of the climate model types you were downloading - it's very hard to anybody to check anything.

Most commonly, a 'generic' warning relates to an executable file which the anti-virus company in question hasn't seen being downloaded very often. There are public tools - the best known being https://www.virustotal.com/ - which can check a reported file against a number (typically ~50) of independent AV products, to give you a better overview of the potential problem.

Have a look at the earlier thread Checksum Errors, where we worked through some specific examples.
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Message 50537 - Posted: 15 Oct 2014, 13:36:16 UTC - in response to Message 50535.  

Hi Andreas, these are false positives, probably because a small portion of code in the exe files matches a piece of code that is seen as suspicious by the virus checker. It is discussed in this thread. As well as the one Richard links to.
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