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Git download --- Virus

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Hi

I downloaded and started to Install Git.

There is a Virus on you setup.
Program that appears to have trojan-like features or behavior.

Git/bin/pdfinfo.exe

trojan.generic.[variant], gen:trojan.[variant]

Why???

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Quoted 10 lines · On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:35:33 +0300 (EEST) "[email protected]"…

I downloaded and started to Install Git.

There is a Virus on you setup.
Program that appears to have trojan-like features or behavior.

Git/bin/pdfinfo.exe

trojan.generic.[variant], gen:trojan.[variant]

Why???

Because your antivirus software applies its (seemingly imperfect) heuristics and thinks there's a virus while there's none.

To state this in a more blunt way: no there's no any virus in the Git for Windows installation package.

The other possibility is you obtaining the installation package from a place other than http://git-scm.com or some malware active on your computer is changing the packages you're downloading on the fly. The latter is highly unlikely though.