Malware in Win32 GnuCash 2.6.0

[John Ralls]

On Jan 1, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Jules B. Levinson <juleslevinson at comcast.net> wrote:

> Friends,
> 
> On the evening of December 30th I installed release 2.6.0 only to have my security 
> program quarantine gnucash.exe when it detected an infection. On the evening of 
> December 31st I wrote to the developer of that program and reported my experience as 
> well as the that of several other users of GnuCash who had written to me to say that they 
> found no such infection. Earlier today (January 1) the developer replied that they had 
> been able to determine the detection of this threat to be a false positive, had modified 
> their definitions accordingly, and would like me to restore the file and run a scan. I did so 
> and all went smoothly. Much ado about nothing, but I thought I should write to the list 
> and say so in order to conclude this non-event.
> 

Thanks for the follow-up.

Regards,
John Ralls