Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <50A89B19AEAAD411B9D200A0C9FB5699E88DF5@craius.cportcorp.com> From: Peter Buckley To: "'Nathaniel@booktailor.com'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Virus report in cygwin Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:35:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Try another anti-virus program. McAfee is famous for its false positives on .tar.gz files. Don't worry, 99 to 1 odds (or better) that there is no virus in the file. Maybe this should be a faq? Maybe it is in the faq already? Or... what if the link to "email cygwin@cygwin.com" had a little line next to it that said "please don't send virus reports, they are probably false positives, check the faq." Or maybe the link could be mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com subject="I have read the faq and am not sending a virus report" I think the reason that there wouldn't be a windows virus is because IIRC the file was compiled on linux... Maybe that should be in the faq "many of the packages are compiled on linux, and therefore it is highly unlikely that they have a windows virus"- I remember cgf saying that package xxx was compiled on linux, but I don't know if all of them are. -Peter -----Original Message----- From: Nathaniel@booktailor.com [mailto:Nathaniel@booktailor.com] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Virus report in cygwin McAfee anti-virus 4.5.0 is reporting a virus in the perl .tar.gz for the latest cygwin download Regards, Nathaniel Nathaniel Cross Booktailor Ltd., 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH Tel: 020-8987-9269 www.booktailor.com, www.booktailortravel.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/