Bloodhound.Exploit.49 trojan found in MIMEBase.pyc

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alex Hunsley wrote:

> Symantec antivirus has apparently picked up a virus in my Python 2.4
> (under cygwin):
>
> Scan type:  Scheduled Scan
> Event:  Threat Found!
> Threat: Bloodhound.Exploit.49
> File:  C:\cygwin\lib\python2.4\email\MIMEBase.pyc
> Location:  Quarantine
> Action taken:  Quarantine succeeded
>
> There's info to be found on various pages, but it's a pretty terse
> explanation:
> http://secunia.com/virus_information/22534/bloodhound.exploit.49/
>
> Has anyone had this also? Is it perhaps a false positive?

if Python had anything to do with this, they would probably have mentioned it
in the related documents:

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.exploit.49.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-048.mspx

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