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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:34:07 -0500
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On 3/28/2011 09:43, Dante Allegria wrote:
> 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.

Just in case, check that your AV software didn't decide to quarantine
things for some reason.

-Jeremy

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