[texhax] babelbib.pdf appears to be a threat
Thomas Schneider
schneidt at mail.nih.gov
Thu Aug 23 17:12:27 CEST 2018
My ESET Cyber Security Pro objected to a backup file of:
/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/babelbib/babelbib.pdf
I tried to download the original
http://mirrors.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/babelbib.pdf
and it was cleaned by ESET, ruining the PDF (it would not open).
Downloading the original from
http://mirrors.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/babelbib.pdf
by wget fails (goes into an infinite loop) because the file is
considered by ESET Cyber Security Pro to be a threat:
"PDF/Phishing.A.Gen trojan".
http://mirrors.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/contrib/babelbib/
does not seem to provide the LaTeX source code for
babelbib.pdf.
I have told ESET, but it seems prudent to warn you folks too.
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As a tug member I have the TeX Collection 2018, but it fails to read
on my new CD reader. The CD reader is happy with a movie DVD. So I
could not confirm that this file is on the DVD.
Regards,
Tom
Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research
RNA Biology Laboratory
Biological Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
schneidt at mail.nih.gov
https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)
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