I have a Dell XPS 410 running under Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition.
I put the operating system installation DVD into the DVD drive and opened Windows Explorer.
I clicked on one of the folders on the installation DVD and my anti-virus program said that a file in that folder was a threat. I used the anti-virus program to scan the entire installation DVD and it was confirmed that this was the only potential problem on the DVD.
The path to the file was d:\$oem$\gotouch.exe.
I then reasoned that it must be impossible for a DVD-ROM to be infected with any kind of dangerous file, because a DVD-ROM is read-only and cannot be written to.
I then further reasoned that given that a DVD-ROM cannot be written to, there exists 2 possibilities concerning the problem behind the file "gotouch.exe".
The first possibility is that the file "gotouch.exe" was somehow corrupted at the factory when the operating system installation DVD was being created, which I find highly unlikely.
The second possibility, which I learned of by searching the Web, is that the file "gotouch.exe" produces a "false positive" in some anti-virus programs (a "false positive" being a file that an anti-virus program says is a threat, even though there is nothing wrong whatsoever with the file).
Does anyone know if the file "gotouch.exe" on the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system installation DVD can bring about a "false positive" response in some anti-virus programs?