Is GNUCASH, in fact, unsafe....

[David T.]

Hmm. A search for "gnucash virus" turns up some interesting pages, not the least being:

http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6132_102-5199287.html 
This does not indicate a virus, but it does mention two potential vulnerabilities that the development team may need to examine and address.


In 2009, there was a problem with a (possible?) virus in the MySQL dependency, although there doesn't appear to have been a conclusion to that thread. Nabble has this at: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Virus-in-downloaded-exe-td1449515.html

In 2008, PortableApps had a thread about a false positive virus report on the portable version of Gnucash at http://portableapps.com/node/14390.


I also wonder if the use of the loopback device by gconf (do I have that right?) might be causing trouble. I know it raised flags for some observant Windows users a while back.

David



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From: Yongxin Wang <fefe.wyx at gmail.com>
To: danchurch at aol.com
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Is GNUCASH, in fact, unsafe....

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 00:15,  <danchurch at aol.com> wrote:
> Avast (which several times has saved my butt) flags gnucash as unsafe.
>
> It offers to open the program in its safe sandbox, but here it fails with error message.

Avast used to complain about the gspawn-win32-helper.exe in my old
version of GnuCash some time ago (and I added it as an exception), but
now with the most recent version of Avast and virus definition and
GnuCash 2.4.7, it is not complaining(I removed the exception from
Avast).

> I would love to escape Quicken. Seems I can not.
>
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