Hi guys

Sorry I'm pretty ignorant about Win and it's parasites ... I'm trying to avoid this OS as much as possible.

Anyway there are occasions where I need to boot Win and so I decided to run a file check with Sophos.

To my surprise while scanning an old instance of mini-cpan it reported Hide_Others.dll in Win32::Process::Hide to be infected with "Mal/Packer" !?!

From my understanding of older discussions of Win32::Process::Hide hiding processes is considered suspicious ... but does that really mean that this DLL is infected?

Maybe a dumb question from a Win viewpoint, but as said, I invested into Linux for the privilege to not having to deal with M$ ... so surely others know better.

Should I care and/or should anyone be informed?

Cheers Rolf

In reply to win32-process-hide infected with mal/packer? by LanX

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