antivirus messing up a checkout

I'm trying to checkout a public repo on a windows box, and a corporate antivirus is screwing me by flagging a .svn file as a virus and deleting it (thus rendering the checkout invalid).

svn co -q http://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/RELEASE/0.11.1

The "bad" file is .svn/pristine/bd/bd10f1e696452058fbb0bbe2eff52c03437cb033.svn-base

'file' reports it as:

..svn/pristine/bd/bd10f1e696452058fbb0bbe2eff52c03437cb033.svn-base: PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

So it looks like a windows exe which gets the antivirus program (McAfee Enterprise) all hot and bothered flagging the file as Artemis!7F2A64279A7D and deleting it.

Of course, I can't disable the AV for that file on this $corp windows box (group policy doesn't allow that).

Workarounds?

I thought about converting to a different version control program (convert svn to mercurial on checkout for instance), but I'm not sure that would work and I wanted to keep it as a svn repo if possible.
Received on 2013-02-22 04:28:39 CET