[CWB] Malware Warning?

[Alberto Simões]

On 03/02/2011 17:40, Stefan Evert wrote:
>
>> We had the same warnings, when we tried to download the windows beta version our Corpus Linguistics class (the download was from sourceforge).
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> Hm, that may be worrying (or it may be the usual false positives produced by many virus scanners).  Did you download the Windows binaries recently?
>
> Sourceforge just sent an e-mail a couple of days ago explaining that their servers had been hacked and asking users to change their passwords.  They said they hadn't detected any successful malicious activity, but perhaps the attackers managed to slip a few trojans into sf.net downloads (which seems like a good idea if you want to spread your trojan quickly and widely).
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> Andrew, could you download the Win binary and check whether there's anything fishy about it?  Do you think we should start putting MD5 checksums on the Web page?

Anybody with an old zip laying in his hard drive can just compare MD5 of 
zip files. No need to unzip and be.. attacked...

>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
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Alberto Simões