Re: [libreoffice-users] Malware in latest Win x64 download

On 04/10/2017 04:24 PM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2017-04-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com>:
>
> > If this is normal, why?
> >
> > If not, can it be fixed?
> ​No, it is not normal. Although contamination of the official builds are
> not impossible, it is however less likely to happen than the following:
>
> - Download from a suspicious source. Always grab your download links from ​
> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ . It will redirect you to an
> official mirror
> - Corrupted/intercepted download because of an already infected system: you
> can check the downloaded file fingerprint to make sure it matches the ones
> listed here:
> https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.3.2/win/x86/LibreOffice_5.3.2_Win_x86.msi.mirrorlist
> - False positive. On occasion, some AV software report false positives.
>
> So, first question is: did you download it from the official site, second
> is did the download was corrupted?
This potential contaminations issues is one reason why I stopped 
"officially" making a DVD with LibreOffice [all available platforms] and 
documentation.

I believe that there were false positive issues a few years ago.  This 
is a lesson for always checking your newly downloaded Windows packages 
through you security software.  I run several to cover "most 
posibilities".  That is one reason I use Windows 10 as little as 
possible and Ubuntu Linux as my default OS.



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