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berteh / ScribusGenerator

Create beautiful documents with data. Open source pdf (and Scribus) template and mail-merge alternative.
http://berteh.github.io/ScribusGenerator/
MIT License
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Windows Malware Alert #186

Closed w9ran closed 3 weeks ago

w9ran commented 2 years ago

After installing the stable version of Scribus (1.4.5) and downloading Scribus Generator for v1.4.x to 1.5.5 I get a malware warning when I unzip it: Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml

Is this a false alarm?
Thanks, Bob

berteh commented 2 years ago

Hello Bob,

Provided you downloaded your copy from this GitHub repository then yes, it is a false alarm:

https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/archive/master.zip for Scribus v1.4.x to 1.5.5

https://github.com/berteh/ScribusGenerator/archive/python3.zip for Scribus 1.5.6+

I will look into this further, but you can safely run the script in the meantime.

Thanks for this report, even though it's a bad news. First time I hear of it about a zip file of uncompiled material.

w9ran commented 2 years ago

Thanks much for your prompt reply. I since installed and have had success with the Scribus 1.5.7 development version, and the corresponding script downloaded from the same Github page without triggering the alert I got with the master.zip file.

I did fill the .log file last night until finally figuring out why Scribus Generator was not happy. It seems that saving a file in OpenOffice Calc as .csv actually inserts semi-colons instead of commas as delimiters! I've tried it on other data to confirm and if you examine their default .csv files in a text editor you see nothing but semi-colons. Here's a snippet:

Robert;Nickels;1;PRM;EN52DG;42.2624202;-89.691601;Stephenson ;IL;

Thanks for providing the ability to change the delimiter in Scribus Generator as I haven't found a way to change it in OpenOffice Calc. Apparently the definition of "C" in "csv" is not well understood by Apache!

Bob