I've been using Fedora for a while now and I've been loving it.
Today, just for fun I ran F-prot to check the entire file system and it came back clean except for this:

/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/run.debug could be infected with an unknown virus

I looked at the file in vi and it's a text file but it is all garbled. It's 22 lines of...

insert_int^@@^^local_proc_walk_init~~~~^^^@^@alloc_string_node^@print_help^@
process_policy_option^@__dso_handle^@
...

What is this file and why would F-prot label it as "suspicious?"

What is this file
Debug information for "run". If you check your rpm database, the package should be installed (so it's not a rogue file or installed from tarball) and the files md5sum should match (so it's integrity is confirmed). *Checking should preferably be done with a saved copy on readonly media that cant be tampered with, or the rpm from an ftp mirror, and provided no one had a chance to mod the db/rpm or otherwise subvert the system/mirror.


why would F-prot label it as "suspicious?"
Probably heuristics at work that should be tweaked. Send the file and error off to F-prot to have them determine it's clean and fix F-prot.