[GEM Development] Is There a Virus in CHESS.APP" in Shane's Vn.5 RC?

[Shane M. Coughlan]

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Thomas Clayton wrote:
> The file GEMAPPS\CHESS.APP in the compressed file
> C:\OGEM-5.RAW\opengem5.zip
> is infected with the Beer.3192.b (Gen1) virus.
> No action was taken.
> Does anyone else show this to be the case? Has anyone
> heard of this virus, before? Could it be a *false*
> alarm -due for example to the nature of a GEM app.?

Hi Thomas.  This is a false positive, as I use both Norton and AVG tools
to scan, and they both said the files are clean.  The code in chess.app
must contain a binary sequence that looks like the virus.  As I recall
chess.app is actually a pascal coded application.

Regards

Shane

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