Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/22/14:28:09
Bill Briel wrote:
> Please be advised that I downloaded several cygwin files from your site.
> After rebooting, I was greeted with a deleted mouse driver and a changed
> bootlog. Having corrected this problem, I have removed cgywin from my
> computer. Good joke, but poor business. Retaliation would be too juvenile.
Yep. You caught us. All 2000 subscribers to this mailing list are in a
conspiracy to destroy user's Windows installations because we hate MS.
Geez. The things people believe.
Seriously, there is no intentional attempt to 'delete [your] mouse
driver" or "change [your] bootlog". If that happened to you, I'd check
a few things:
1) run a virus scan -- perhaps you got infected by something during
the same session in which you installed cygwin. This would only show up
at the next reboot.
2) Eeek: perhaps (*perhaps*) the mirror from which you downloaded
cygwin has been compromised, and the tarballs there are infected. (This
is doubtful, but easy to check: get the md5sums from a *different*
mirror, and run 'md5sum -c' on each tarball that setup saved on your
hard drive. Which mirror did you use?
--Chuck
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