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Re: 20000928: FYI: Virus check

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  • Subject: Re: 20000928: FYI: Virus check
  • Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:51:43 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: Al <address@hidden>
>Subject: FYI: Virus check
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200009280328.e8S3Sob15892

Hi Al,

> A colleague has received an email from a user of our software saying that
> she has found a virus on ncdump.exe and ncdumps.exe  We provided this
> software to the user so that netCDF files our programs write could be
> viewed. I don't know if the virus attached itself on our machine or is
> attached to the executables I downloaded from your site but you may wish
> to scan your executables (those for PC platforms). Details are in the
> following emails.

Thanks for the warning.  We checked the ncdump.exe and ncdumps.exe
executables from version 3.5:

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/win32/netcdf-3.5.win32bin.ZIP

dated Sept 7, 1999, which I assume is where you downloaded them from,
with McAffee VirusScan, and found no viruses.  Therefore, we think the
virus attached itself on your machine.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu