# Virus alert when compiling ruby stable 2006-11-05 with mingw

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985 "2006-11-07T11:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jose_Augusto)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985/1 "2006-11-07T11:05:07Z")

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Hi all,

This is my ‘first time’ in this mailing list, although I use Ruby since  
quite a few years…

When compiling last stable (2006-11-05 version), with MinGw on windows,  
my  
avira anti-virus  
complains that conftest.exe (created during the ./configure step) has  
the  
Trojan horse TR/Shutdown.F

I ignore the warnings, and in the end it compiles OK. Sorry to send this  
info to  
all the list but I hope it gets the ‘right’ person 😉

Kind regards to all

JA

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jose_Augusto)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985/2 "2006-11-07T11:05:15Z")

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On Nov 5, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Jose Augusto wrote:

> has the  
> Trojan horse TR/Shutdown.F
> 
> I ignore the warnings, and in the end it compiles OK. Sorry to send  
> this  
> info to all the list but I hope it gets the ‘right’ person 😉

You should send this email to your anti-virus software vendor. I  
doubt that they read the ruby-talk mailing list.

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)  
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jose_Augusto)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985/3 "2006-11-07T11:06:40Z")

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In fact the avirus version i’m running is free 🙂

Nevertheless, the conftest.exe file is transient (gets deleted after  
./configure ends) and it triggers  
the template for that virus.

Last version of Ruby I had compiled (not more than 2 or 3 weeks ago)  
didn’t trigger the avirus, which makes me conclude that  
it now happens as a consequence of recent modifications in  
./configure (?) perhaps… or in the source.

Kind Regards

JA

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**Author:** ![Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@Jose\_Augusto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jose_Augusto)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/virus-alert-when-compiling-ruby-stable-2006-11-05-with-mingw/74985/4 "2006-11-07T11:06:50Z")

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On Nov 6, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Jose Augusto wrote:

> Last version of Ruby I had compiled (not more than 2 or 3 weeks ago)  
> didn’t trigger the avirus, which makes me conclude that  
> it now happens as a consequence of recent modifications in  
> ./configure (?) perhaps… or in the source.

Or in the virus detection software… either way, it isn’t a bug in  
ruby, it is a bug in the detector.