I can and will only respond about the trojan and file downloads issue. McAfee is basically marking all applications that are packed using UPX packer for executables as malicious. It is a nice tool reducing application size quite significantly and saving on download size, thus saving project bandwidth. However, it seems that malicious software authors are also using it, and therefore McAfee has marked the apps as suspicious. What's annoying is that being "suspicious" means the file will be completely gone...
We have tried to contact them, but it wasn't successful. Therefore we went ahead and rebuilt executables without using UPX (ant it cleared the problem), but we could only do that for some subprojects (LLR based ones), because the other apps were built by outside people. On the other hand, BOINC is trying to redownload files of old application versions that have been removed by antivirus. It is probably being done because no newer app version has been sent to your host yet. BOINC rescans the data folders on startup looking for the files it knows should be there, and when it does not find one, it is redownloaded. I am not exactly sure of the reasoning for it though - why not redownload only if there is work that needs the files? On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Paul D. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a log from the start-up of BOINC and for the life of me I > cannot understand this ... prime grid seems to have been contacted > even when NNT is selected and it looks like a whole set of executables > were downloaded. What makes this more than a little disturbing is > that MacAfee says that at least one of those executables is a trojan ... > > I had seen this before on other systems and just blew through the > warnings ... but this is VERY odd ... > > Oh, and if the BOINC client knows that I don't want MW CPU tasks, why > does it keep asking for them ... I am on the third iteration already > when oh when is it going to ask for GPU work like my preferences state? > > Two bug reports in one... I hope that is short enough ... > > > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.6.28 for > windows_intelx86 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Configured to use all coprocessors > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j > zlib/ > 1.2.3 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Data directory: C:\Documents and > Settings\All > Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\BOINC > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Running under account Paul D. Buck > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) > i7 > CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 4] > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 > mmx > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 > Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00) > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Memory: 2.99 GB physical, 4.83 GB virtual > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Disk: 465.75 GB total, 427.73 GB free > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Local time is UTC -7 hours > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM CUDA device: GeForce GTX 260 (driver > version > 19038, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, est. 104GFLOPS) > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM CUDA device: GeForce GTX 260 (driver > version > 19038, compute capability 1.3, 896MB, est. 104GFLOPS) > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Not using a proxy > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM a...@home URL: http://abcathome.com/; > Computer ID: > 86181; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM rose...@home URL: > http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ > ; Computer ID: 1068952; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM boincsimap URL: > http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/ > ; Computer ID: 146208; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM malaria URL: http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za/malaria/; > Computer ID: 4250; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM free...@home URL: > http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/freehal_at_home/ > ; Computer ID: 8488; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM p...@home URL: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; > Computer ID: 46744; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Leiden Classical URL: > http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/; > Computer ID: 60674; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM SHA-1 Collision Search Graz URL: > http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/ > ; Computer ID: 54638; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM superlinkattechnion URL: > http://cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ > ; Computer ID: 56650; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM c...@home URL: > http://celsathome.bme.utexas.edu/cels/ > ; Computer ID: 1179; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM climateprediction.net URL: > http://climateprediction.net/ > ; Computer ID: 973918; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Rectilinear Crossing Number URL: > http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ > ; Computer ID: 57457; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ URL: > http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ > ; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: > default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM dock...@home URL: http://docking.cis.udel.edu/; > Computer ID: 30335; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM einst...@home URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ > ; > Computer ID: 1945353; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM geneticl...@home URL: > http://genlife.is-a-geek.org/genlife/ > ; Computer ID: 10606; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM lhcathome URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/ > lhcathome/; Computer ID: 9794418; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM milky...@home URL: > http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ > ; Computer ID: 71433; location: school; project prefs: school > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM mindmodel...@beta URL: > http://MindModeling.org/beta/ > ; Computer ID: 10398; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM nque...@home Project URL: > http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ > ; Computer ID: 15227; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM pira...@home URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/; > Computer ID: 58106; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM q...@home URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/; > Computer ID: 142668; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM spinhe...@home URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/; > Computer ID: 167088; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Virtual Prairie URL: > http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ > ; Computer ID: 6973; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM cosmol...@home URL: http:// > www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID: 47400; location: (none); > project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM eni...@home URL: http://www.enigmaathome.net/; > Computer ID: 14339; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM GPUGRID URL: http://www.gpugrid.net/; Computer > ID: 36139; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM malariacontrol.net URL: > http://www.malariacontrol.net/ > ; Computer ID: 123494; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM PrimeGrid URL: http://www.primegrid.com/; > Computer ID: 109260; location: home; project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid URL: > http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ > ; Computer ID: 935842; location: (none); project prefs: default > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid General prefs: from World > Community Grid (last modified 11-Sep-2009 06:53:49) > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Host location: none > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid General prefs: using your > defaults > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active > to > 2450.43MB > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to > 3001.78MB > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 200.00GB > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM file projects/www.primegrid.com/ > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.10_windows_intelx86.exe not found > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM file projects/www.primegrid.com/ > primegrid_psp_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_intelx86.exe not found > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM file projects/www.primegrid.com/ > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.09_windows_intelx86.exe not found > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu159_00013_9 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu167_00020_10 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu166_00068_0 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu168_00031_4 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM GPUGRID Restarting task PMEcube34-OTTO_HERG5-5-40- > RND2438_1 using acemd version 671 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu168_00049_14 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu152_00069_20 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM GPUGRID Restarting task 315-GIANNI_BIND001-28-100- > RND8807_1 using acemd version 671 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu171_00073_17 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Restarting task > mu173_00022_13 using hpf2 version 603 > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Sending scheduler request: > To fetch work. > 9/25/2009 8:56:00 PM World Community Grid Requesting new tasks > 9/25/2009 8:56:01 PM PrimeGrid Started download of > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.10_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:01 PM PrimeGrid Started download of > primegrid_psp_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:05 PM PrimeGrid Finished download of > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.10_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:05 PM PrimeGrid Finished download of > primegrid_psp_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:05 PM PrimeGrid Started download of > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.09_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:05 PM PrimeGrid [error] Checksum or signature error > for > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.10_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:05 PM PrimeGrid [error] Checksum or signature error > for > primegrid_psp_sr2sieve_wrapper_1.11_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:06 PM World Community Grid Scheduler request > completed: > got 1 new tasks > 9/25/2009 8:56:07 PM PrimeGrid Finished download of > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.09_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:07 PM PrimeGrid [error] Checksum or signature error > for > primegrid_llr_wrapper_5.09_windows_intelx86.exe > 9/25/2009 8:56:12 PM milky...@home Sending scheduler request: To > fetch > work. > 9/25/2009 8:56:12 PM milky...@home Requesting new tasks > 9/25/2009 8:56:17 PM milky...@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 > new tasks > 9/25/2009 8:56:17 PM milky...@home Message from server: No work sent > 9/25/2009 8:56:17 PM milky...@home Message from server: CPU jobs are > available, but your preferences are set to not accept them > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > -- Rytis Slatkevičius +370 670 77777 ICQ 270359185; 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