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Re: Virus in cpio.exe ?
- From: David Stacey <drstacey at tiscali dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: david dot vantyghem at free dot fr
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:17:21 +0000
- Subject: Re: Virus in cpio.exe ?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <5467512C dot 5090501 at free dot fr>
On 15/11/14 13:12, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
virustotal.com found several suspicious files in Cygwin :
https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds/issues/20#issuecomment-62910085
I downloaded the original on Cygwin website and found the same virus
in cpio.exe (not in the 2 others files and I didn't find ln.exe in
Cygwin) :
https://www.virustotal.com/fr/file/6ec8ec41fac40988330badf7f4ada72948657bf06fb71cf76ef7eb2bc0c5b3bf/analysis/
Thank you for reporting this, but it is highly likely that these are
false positives:
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus
Please could you report these as false positives to the anti-virus company.
Dave.
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