Sophos Antivirus claims port 'zlib' ships a Virus/Spyware called "iPh/WireLurk-G"...

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Marko Käning <mk-macports at posteo.net> wrote:

>         - a false positive or
>

Others have reported this. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that some
random chunk of code or data won't hash to the same value as a virus; it's
statistically unlikely, but over time the probability of a false positive
will tend toward unity. And in fact false positives are rare but known to
happen, as one would expect.

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