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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

W dniu 24.07.2014, 20:53, 
A.L.M.Buxey AT lboro.ac.uk
 pisze:
> Hi,
>
>> These things just keep popping up. There is not much that we can do
>> about them as indeed they are false positives.
> it would be interesting if they thought that YOUR installer was an infection
> and others werent - ie whether they are picking up some of eg the embedded
> certificate data as part of the fingerprint. i'll throw our installers at 
> the usual
> online testers.
I have tested the installer for my university and the same problems as
fo Cambridge popped up.
>
> PS having an installer that then downloads other material is likely to 
> trigger issues
> in other malware systems and next generation firewalls :-)
The installer could bind itself to a given MIME type and file extension.
This way we could use a browser to download the profile from CAT and the
installer would get started as it's default application. Of course the
downside of this approach is that has two steps, but we will need this
for Android anyway. We already have a CAT module that produces a
"generic" XML profile.

Tomasz

>
> alan

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