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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dante Allegria <danteallegria AT yahoo DOT ca>
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?
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--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register <damon DOT w DOT register AT lmco DOT com> wrote:

> this at a company.=A0 Is that so?=A0 Do you have an
> aggressive IS department who might have decided they don't like Cygwin?

No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build =
scripts:
   rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/*

<sigh> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)

Thanks for all those who replied!

dante



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