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  • I downloaded WordPress 2.5 and successfully installed it on my web host. Now I want to install it again in a different directory. I’m trying to upload the ZIP I downloaded from wordpress.org, but I keep getting this error:

    Virus Detected; File not Uploaded! (Trojan.Downloader.JS.Agent-1 FOUND)

    Has the download link been corrupted?

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  • WordPress.org/latest.zip is not corrupt.

    I can confirm Lincoln Mullen’s findings. The zip appers to be corrupt, so it is either something wrong with the definition files or the wordpress zip is indeed corrupt. I guess I wil stick to 2.3 until this get’s sorted out.

    I just downloaded, open just fine without virus.

    I suppose it’s just a file that some scanners might find ‘suspected’. I had no problems myself.

    It seems that the DE package ( wordpress-deutschland.org ) is still corrupt. I just upgraded one of my blogs and got the FTP error.

    More details here (German)

    http://www.pcbeirat.de/wordpress/wordpress-25-de-jqueryjs-und-interfacejs-werden-als-virus-erkannt-bisher-nur-in-en-version-behoben-2008-04-07

    Both files (interface.js and jquery.js) of the german version are absolutely identical with the official ones.

    jah. Just got the same response from wordpress-deutschland.org

    Still weird that my FTP server shows that warning when I upload the German latest.zip . It seems that there is no security risk even when this error message occurs.

    A clamav scan of my box identified the following:
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    //opt/wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/interface.js: Trojan.Downloader.JS.Agent-1 FOUND
    //opt/wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/interface.js: moved to ‘/var/spool/clamav/quarantine//interface.js’
    //opt/wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js: Trojan.Downloader.JS.Agent-1 FOUND
    //opt/wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js: moved to ‘/var/spool/clamav/quarantine//jquery.js’

    ———– SCAN SUMMARY ———–
    Known viruses: 413852
    Engine version: 0.92.1
    Scanned directories: 35907
    Scanned files: 111581
    Infected files: 2
    Data scanned: 257533.30 MB
    Time: 97043.450 sec (1617 m 23 s)
    _____

    yes. At the site I posted above you can see that only clamav identifies the file as a virus. Somehow weird

    Thread Starter lincolnmullen

    (@lincolnmullen)

    I’m not sure what they did, but my host had to update cPanel. Something about clamav. Anyway, it works for me now that they’ve done the update.

    Apparently that’s a false positive, nothing more.

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