How come randseed.bin got “infected” by a virus?
The file randseed.bin is used by PGP to store and generate randomness, which is used to create new random session keys every time you encrypt something. Afterwards, it is filled with new random data. A virus or integrity checker will then of course detect that the file has changed. Since the file has a .bin extension, some checkers think that it is an executable, and so will inform you they have detected a possible virus. However, this file is only used by PGP to read some random data and will never be executed. It is therefore safe to put it in the “exclusion” list of your virus scanner, so it will be skipped in future. An alternative is to instruct PGP to use a file with another extension, e.g. random.rnd. For the 2.6 versions this is done by puttting Randseed=C:\PGP\RANDOM.RND in your config.txt file. The PGP 5.x and higher GUI has a similar setting for Random Seed File. Deleting the random seed file will not do any harm; PGP will just ask you for some random keystrokes and generate
