CA anti virus finding a “virus” in the the newer WP versions

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  vfleming · Member · Dec 31, 2007 at 2:20 pm

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  While doing my upgrade today my CA virus protection found and deleted a so called virus from my blog v.2.3.1 and when I unzipped v.2.3.2. It is showing that js/snz.a is a virus. There is not much information out about this but it appears that this is a false reading that started this morning. You will get this when you visit many sites starting this morning (like tv.com). CA must have sent out updates last night and I believe it is only the CA anti virus software that is doing it. I run etrust by CA.

  Has anyone else seen this and can confirm this is no threat?

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  vfleming · Member · Dec 31, 2007 at 2:24 pm

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  Sorry I posted this in the wrong place but will leave it up for a FYI.

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  sulz · Member · Dec 31, 2007 at 2:24 pm

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  i think you have a self-hosted blog, in which case you have to go to http://wordpress.org/support to place your query. this is the forum for bloggers hosted by wp.com. please correct me if i’m mistaken.

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  mark · Member · Dec 31, 2007 at 2:31 pm

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  WP 2.3.2 has been downloaded many thousands of times. No other reports exist and the likelihood of the WP download containing such a virus is zero. It’s a false positive by the software.

  Closing this to save worrying people.

  Update:
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/ca_dodgy_update/
  “A mis-firing anti-virus update from CA issued on Monday wrongly identified legitimate JavaScript files as a virus.”