<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Marko Käning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mk-macports@posteo.net" target="_blank">mk-macports@posteo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2oj" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden"> - a false positive or<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Others have reported this. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that some random chunk of code or data won't hash to the same value as a virus; it's statistically unlikely, but over time the probability of a false positive will tend toward unity. And in fact false positives are rare but known to happen, as one would expect.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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