dosemu freedos tarball contains virus?

[Alex Snow]

I tried to remove the virus with no luck. I'll just grab the original 
freedos stuff from freedos.org and make my own package. or compile it 
from source.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:39:34AM -0500, Tom and Esther 
Ward wrote:
> Hi, your virus infection looks to be authentic. Power pump is a dos virus. I
> suspect whoever packaged the dosemu package is infected with Power pump.
> You might want to inform the proper people of the virus you found, and let
> your virus program remove the virus before doing anything else with it.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:24 PM
> Subject: dosemu freedos tarball contains virus?
> 
> 
> > Hello all. I was recently using clam antivirus to scan some files and I
> > found that the dosemu-freedos-b9pbin.tgz file is infected with a virus.
> > I redownloaded the file and the same thing happens. here's the relevent
> > line I get from clamscan:
> > ./dosemu-freedos-b9-bin.tgz: PowerPump.B FOUND
> >
> > is this the real thing or a false alarm?
> >
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