[tex-live] Evtl. Virus in TeXLive

[Robin Fairbairns]

Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     [according to Engine B of the antivirus part of GData Internet Security 
>     does the file microtype.pdf which can be found in the directory 
>     \texlive\texmf-dist\doc\latex\microtype on the Tex Collection 2007 - DVD 
>     that is sold in Germany seem to contain a CVE-Exploit]
> 
> I can only imagine that this is a false positive from your antivirus
> software.

fwiw, i checked it using the department's software, and the result was
negative.

i've never yet seen a true positive on tex material.  (the nearest was
an emtex-based script that renamed files: this qualifies as a dos virus,
apparently.)

robin