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RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gianni Mariani [mailto:gianni@mariani.ws] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:51 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on 
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
> 
> 
> 
> I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is 
> infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well, 
> sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing.
> 
> Or it could be that it's a coincidence that as soon as I asked other 
> developers to install cywin they all got it as well, and it 
> may also be 
> just a coincidence that after installing a fresh copy of 
> everything and 
> rebooted and all was *almost* fine (because some commands 
> -like ls.exe- 
> didn't install), but my machine instantly rebooted when I 
> tried to run 
> the cygwin setup the second time.

If you had run a file with Klez in it, you would know *all* about it.
Vshield/Norton would have been disabled, and many exe's would be
infected.

To the best of my knowledege Setup.exe is clean - I run mcafee and am
very careful when uploading new releases.

Rob


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