Tor a Virus?

[Quentin Smith]

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> >I am a developer on a free software project called Tor.  Tor is
> >designed to provide safe, anonymous communication for free speech and
> >privacy purposes.  According to some of our users, AVG reports
> >certain
> >versions of Tor (particularly the obsolete 0.0.9pre4, available at
> >http://tor.eff.org/dist/obsolete/tor-009pre4.exe ) as infected or
> >compromised by something you call "Trojan horse Proxy.12.AL."  I
> >could
> >find no information about this virus or trojan on your website.

Hi-

We're talking about the installer .exe, not tor itself, right? Isn't it
possible that the compressed version of tor coincidentally happens to
match a signature in AVG's database?

- --Quentin

Quentin Smith - http://www.comclub.org/~quentins/about
ComClub International - http://www.comclub.org/
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