You are right. It definitively sounds like that. But as far as I have understood, they moved it explicitly to a test directory for being problematic and only for internal testing. So, I feel, the whole test directory should not be included in KNIME.
@Thiemo.Kellner as far as I understand the discussion the files in question are not actually harmful, but they are flagged as such by some antivirus software. And the preferred solution is to get these scanners to drop the alarm.
I agree that it would be best solved at the place of its origin. Every (re-)distributor, however, decides on how much risk they want to run by distributing non-productive files. This implies that I am mere reporter.
@Thiemo.Kellner from what I read the ClamWin virus scanner is maybe not the most advanced tool, has been criticized in the past and their github repository does not seem to be very recent (latest release is from 2021). No other virus scanner seems to identify these gifs as a problem from what I see.
And indeed I hope that KNIME does scan its files for threads before they distribute them. @ScottF maybe you can enlighten us on that?
I did not mean to offend anyone. I just was trying to point at something that might be a problem.
Surely, Clamav is not the best scanner. But this is holely independent from non-productive files in productive packages. I am sorry to have brought up this.
@Thiemo.Kellner no offence I think it is good to investigate such things since with large open source projects where one incrorporates masses of third party modules something might very well go wrong. So better to check and make sure.
I think it is good to investigate such things since with large open source projects where one incrorporates masses of third party modules something might very well go wrong. So better to check and make sure.