Re: octave-4.0.3 64 bit binaries for windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: DavidCoe "help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2016/7/14, Thu 10:33
> Subject: Re: octave-4.0.3 64 bit binaries for windows
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: DavidCoe 
>>  To: help-octave> Cc: 
>>  Date: 2016/7/13, Wed 22:14
>>  Subject: Re: octave-4.0.3 64 bit binaries for windows
>> 
>> T hank for responding so quickly. An infected packaging tool would be really
>>  bad news, so it's best to play safe. So far, I have:
>> 
>>  1. raw 7z archive: Windows Defender negative
>>  2. extracted zip2exe (windows): Windows Defender positive, 13/51 VirusTotal
>>  positives
>>  3. extracted zip2exe (linux VM): Windows Defender negative, 11/51 
> VirusTotal
>>  positives
>>  4. mxe-rebuilt zip2exe (linux native): Windows Defender negative, 8/51
>>  VirusTotal positives
>> 
>>  The results are from 2 machines (dual-booted or virtual  OSs) and I'd 
> be
>>  reluctant to believe the linuxen have system infections. Could you perhaps
>>  submit your local zip2exe to the on-line VirusTotal multi-scanner? Prebuilt
>>  32bit versions don't trigger alerts.
>> 
>>  I'll resume exercising your (utterly heroic) 64bit octave and, once the
>>  mxe-octave repositories are back on-line, I might persevere  with my own
>>  local build.
>> 
>>  David
> David 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your investigations ans reports.
> 
> I confirmed a positive alert using VirusTotal on my linux PC (ubuntu 14.04) 
> *before* treating on MS-Windows.
> I am stopping distribution of binaries at the moment.
> 
> The infection is limited to the zip2exe.exe so I will omit share/nsis folder, 
> which is not related to octave execution, from the 7z archive.
> 
> For installer I have to manage packaging script I will take for a while.
> 
> Tatsuro 


I have removed share/nsis folder from 7z archive of x64 binary 
and it is distributed as "octave-4.0.3-x64-1.7z," 
(Note that the previous is "octave-4.0.3-x64-0.7z,")

For installer version, I will at the moment to stop distribution.

Tatsuro