Download link alert - antivirus?

Download link alert - antivirus?

by Gordon McLeod -
Number of replies: 2

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems trying to download latest versions - I'm currently trying to upgrade a test server to work through the move to version 2, but our Sophos anti-virus is saying the site the links go to has trojans and is blocked. I'm anticipating it's probably a false positive - but can someone confirm?

V 1.9.16 zip http://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable19/moodle-1.9.16.zip

V 2.2.1 zip http://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable22/moodle-latest-22.zip

Thanks, Gordon.

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In reply to Gordon McLeod

Re: Download link alert - antivirus?

by Mauno Korpelainen -

Both of those files (as zip files) are clean.

The interesting thing here is that those download links are downloading files from server of freefr.dl.sourceforge.net and if you visit for example

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/downloads/

you can see that in a way Sophos anti-virus is right and the freefr.dl.sourceforge.net server has (had) trojans in some files and obviously therefore Sophos blocks all files from that server...

In previous cases core developers of moodle.com have sent a report to most anti-virus software companies about false positives but this is a little different case - could you create a new issue to moodle tracker - http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa - with some more details about the version of Sophos etc. (with a link to this post)

Note that you can install the latest versions also with GIT or CVS - see

http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/CVS_for_Administrators

and

http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Git_for_Administrators

or for example

https://github.com/moodle/moodle

(check different versions / branches and Downloads link...)

In reply to Mauno Korpelainen

Re: Download link alert - antivirus?

by Gordon McLeod -

Hi Mauno,

Thanks. I'll log the details on the Tracker.