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Virex 7.2 Hazardous to Fink's Health

Posted by pudge on from the danger-will-robinson dept.

Gorgonzola writes "It was reported that Virex 7.2 and Fink were conflicting, it turned out that Virex 7.2 was overwriting libraries in Fink's default directory, thus hosing Fink for those who had it installed, and preventing Fink from installing for future users. Also, one user pointed out that of Virux's included packages, several (CURL, OpenSSL, and DLCompat) had license terms that Virex was ignoring." It is strongly recommended you don't install Virex 7.2 until this issue is resolved.

2 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. VirEx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Um, it's spelled Virex, not Virux.

  2. Viruses on OSX by ubiquitin · · Score: 3, Informative

    The files that get overwritten by Virex are:

    //sw
    /sw/lib
    /sw/lib/libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib
    /sw/lib/libcurl.2.0.2.dylib
    /sw/lib/libcurl.2.dylib
    /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib
    /sw/lib/libssl.0.9.6.dylib



    Fink developers have already posted the correct way to embedding a dylib into a bundle on OS X on the McAfee forums
    The viruses that McAfee attempts to prevent are really from Windows-land anyway. I have yet to run across a true native MacOSX virus. And finally, McAfee wasn't giving any credit to the Fink project. They should know better. No suprise then that Virex got bought out by a company called Network Ass.

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