What?

I got this page when downloading the Gmail notifier… WTF?

High security alert!!!

You are not permitted to download the file “GmailInstaller.exe” because it is infected with the virus “W32/IstBar.JA-tr”.

URL = http://dl.google.com/gmail-helper/GmailInstaller.exe

File quarantined as: .
http://www.fortinet.com/VirusEncyclopedia/search/encyclopediaSearch.do?method=quickSearchDirectly&virusName=W32%2FIstBar.JA-tr

Gmail Installer (.exe)

Thats bloody strange. Any ideas?

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  1. Chris Samuel Says: June 20th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

    I submitted a copy of that exe to virustotal.com and it didn’t report any hits at all, so my guess would be a false positive..

    cheers!
    Chris

  • i386 Says: June 21st, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Cool! Do you read planet Linux Australia?

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