The VideoLAN Project Advises Against The Use Of Clam AntiVirus
According to VLC News, VLC issued a Security Advisory that “Clam AntiVirus incorrectly claims that the x86 SSE2-accelerated I:4:2:2 chroma conversion plugin as being a computer trojan. This affects builds of VLC media player with recent versions of the MingW compilation toolchain.”
This may make copying, installing and/or using of VLC media player or applications based on LibVLC impossible.
An anti-virus database has to be up-to-date to be of much use. Around 20% of tested antivirus incorrectly detected as VLC 1.0.5 as a trojan at the time of release. Kaspersky Anti-Virus was updated within one business day. The VideoLAN project advises against the use of Clam AntiVirus, because users should not rely on a security software which fails to be updated within a full month period.
History
28 January 2010, VLC media player 1.0.5 released.
15 February 2010 (probably earlier), Vendor notification.
28 February 2010, Initial security advisory by VideoLAN project.
As for solution to the Security Advisory issue, VLC advices users to remove Clam AntiVirus before downloading VLC media player.
VLC
VLC media player is a cross-platform open-source highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Clam AntiVirus
Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus program for Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista / XP / Me / 2000 / 98 and Windows Server 2008 and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
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