[webkit-dev] Issue retrieving SourceCode: SC containing Trojan horses?!?

[David D. Kilzer]

Filed Bug 14649 to track this as an evangelism issue.

http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14649

Dave


Paul Bakker <pgbakker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Trying to download and install WebKit, following the instructions at
> http://webkit.org/building/tools.html, but am running into the following:
> 
>  
> 
> First I downloaded the tar file with sourcecode, but unzipping it gave
> errors in my McAffee (up to date0 firewall software.
> 
>  
> 
> Then I tried through "svn checkout
> http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit" in Cygwin. it goes for
> quite a while and then the same error.
> 
>  
> 
> Cygwin fails with the following message:
> 
> A    WebKit/LayoutTests/fast/encoding/noscript-in-head-expected.txt
> 
> A
> WebKit/LayoutTests/fast/encoding/denormalised-voiced-japanese-chars-expected
> .png
> 
> svn: Can't open file
> 'WebKit/LayoutTests/fast/encoding/.svn/tmp/text-base/utf-32-big-endian-nobom
> .xml.svn-base': No such file or directory
> 
>  
> 
> In my firewall software, I see this file is removed due to a "
> Exploit-ObscuredHtml (Trojan). Following a link in the FW software, I get
> this: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description
> <http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=131453>
> &virus_k=131453
> 
>  
> 
> So, are there actually Trojan horses within the sourcecode files?!?! Of is
> my FW software complaining about nothing and should I just disable the FW
> temporarily?
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> 
> Regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Paul