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Antivirus reports malicious behavior

Jan Küster edited this page Jan 7, 2020 · 1 revision

Related issue: https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv/issues/26

We use a custom Texlive distribution in our Travis-Ci builds, mainly because the Ubuntu trusty repositories do not supoprt the latest LaTeX packages (such as fontawesome) and the tests would therefore always fail.

Read the yml file here: https://github.com/jankapunkt/latexcv/blob/master/.travis.yml

In order to run a successful test with a custom Texlive distribution, we need to

  • download the archive from a mirror
  • unpack the archive
  • install the binaries using a profile config
  • add the executable to the systems $PATH
  • run the test scripts

This behaviour of course can easily be interpreted as malicious and I can just encourage everyone to check the files and the scripts in a VM to make sure you are on a safe side.

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