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  "id": 2427,
  "title": "Can't open some csv files",
  "url": "/competitions/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/discussion/2427",
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  "post_date": "2012-08-24T02:20:04.197Z",
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  "content": "<p>I am not sure why but I can't open, for example, train_sample.csv. When I tried, any editor said it it can;t access the file and my antivirus program alerted the file has virus. Anybody has same problem?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "13387",
      "postDate": "08/24/2012 02:20:04",
      "content": "<p>I am not sure why but I can't open, for example, train_sample.csv. When I tried, any editor said it it can;t access the file and my antivirus program alerted the file has virus. Anybody has same problem?</p>",
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    },
    {
      "id": "13399",
      "postDate": "08/24/2012 12:49:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes. I had the same problem and I was unable to open the CSV files.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "13407",
      "postDate": "08/24/2012 15:31:10",
      "content": "<p>Same here - anti virus reported, and unable to open file. train-sample.7z</p>",
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    {
      "id": "13410",
      "postDate": "08/24/2012 16:41:15",
      "content": "<p>This was <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/forums/t/2404/sample-data-file-csv-flagged-as-trojan-by-forefront\">\r\ndiscussed here some</a>, but I'll explain again.</p>\r\n<p>Stack Overflow, being a website for programmers about programming, has lots and lots of code samples. &nbsp;Many (perhaps all) virus scanners check for certain types of malcious code (Office macros, VBScript files, and so on) using fuzzy matching algorithms.\r\n &nbsp;Unfortunately given the shear quantity of code samples it's almost certain some AV programs will falsely flag a collection of our data as dangerous, it doesn't help that some of the questions are\r\n<a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/721772/javascript-virus\">explicitly about malicious code</a>.</p>\r\n<p>The TLDR: these are false positivies.</p>",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 13399,
      "author_name": "muthujothi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/24/2012 12:49:31",
      "content": "<p>Yes. I had the same problem and I was unable to open the CSV files.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 13407,
      "author_name": "jcornell",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/24/2012 15:31:10",
      "content": "<p>Same here - anti virus reported, and unable to open file. train-sample.7z</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 13410,
      "author_name": "kevinmontrose",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/24/2012 16:41:15",
      "content": "<p>This was <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/forums/t/2404/sample-data-file-csv-flagged-as-trojan-by-forefront\">\r\ndiscussed here some</a>, but I'll explain again.</p>\r\n<p>Stack Overflow, being a website for programmers about programming, has lots and lots of code samples. &nbsp;Many (perhaps all) virus scanners check for certain types of malcious code (Office macros, VBScript files, and so on) using fuzzy matching algorithms.\r\n &nbsp;Unfortunately given the shear quantity of code samples it's almost certain some AV programs will falsely flag a collection of our data as dangerous, it doesn't help that some of the questions are\r\n<a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/721772/javascript-virus\">explicitly about malicious code</a>.</p>\r\n<p>The TLDR: these are false positivies.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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