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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Cautionary Measure
From:       Andrew Kar <akar3d () yahoo ! com ! au>
Date:       2005-02-23 18:31:50
Message-ID: 200502241631.32578.akar3d () yahoo ! com ! au
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On Tuesday 22 February 2005 23:16, C. Beamer wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Periodically, I run the f-prot virus program from the command line on my
> Fedora Core 3 installation.  A couple of times, it has found suspicious
> files in my Thunderbird Junk Mail folder, but since the files were
> automatically filtered to this folder and they likely contain Windows
> executables, I've just removed the folder and recreated it.
>
> However, today when I ran f-prot, it came back with files that were
> designated as "suspicious".  Likely, I have nothing to worry about, but
> my motto is "better safe than sorry".  The files in question are in the
> directory:  /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin
>
This is the folder where GDB puts a programs debugging info when it is held 
externally but it does not exist on my FC3 system. Did you compile yours 
yourself?  In any case these files are harmless if they are genuine. Fproto 
may find them suspicious just because the nature of what they are.

GDB allows you to put a program's debugging information in a file
 separate from the executable itself, in a way that allows GDB to find
 and load the debugging information automatically.  Since debugging
 information can be very large -- sometimes larger than the executable
 code itself -- some systems distribute debugging information for their
 executables in separate files, which users can install only when they
 need to debug a problem.

-- 
regards,
andrew.

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