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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:43:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dante Allegria <danteallegria AT yahoo DOT ca>
Subject: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?
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We just discovered that a whole bunch of our Windows machines had everything under their c:/cygwin directories deleted over the weekend. Has anyone else experienced this? Just trying to rule out some sort of malware/virus related to Earth Hour or perhaps some internal process gone awry.

Thanks!

dante



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