[kwlug-disc] VIrus-ridden ISO in Debian archives?

[Paul Nijjar]

My usual approach with these things is to submit the file to
virustotal.com . I did this and it seemed to come up clean?

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/6089dcf5739f5e942b0d943f8062da9ce558b7682fb8b7875ea95b6070a3d8c8/detection

I believe some antivirus software will work with Firefox to scan files
as they are downloaded.

I downloaded the file on my Debian box and got the same message!. It is running Firefox
68.6.1esr (32 bit). But I also do not run an antivirus, because I like
being infected by scary things? I could still click through to
download the file, though. So I am not sure what is going on.

- Paul

On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 05:10:09PM -0400, Ron Singh wrote:
> I am attempting to grab a copy of the i386 Debian 9.13 net-installer ISO.
> My source is this link:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/9.13.0+nonfree/i386/iso-cd/
> 
> I tried twice with a cold reboot between the 2 attempts. I get this message
> from FF --
> 
> [image: image.png]
> 
> "This file contains a virus or malware".
> 
> I had no such message after downloading the 64-bit version.
> Any ideas on how this can be?
> Mebbe a false positive from FF? Wasn't aware that FF does file integrity
> screening.
> 
> I did try downloading again with Ublock Origin turned off after yet another
> reboot and nope, still the same message.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron S.



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