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: <4.3.1.2.20010803135211.0217f380@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:52:30 -0400 To: Peter Buckley , "'Nathaniel@booktailor.com'" , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: Virus report in cygwin In-Reply-To: <50A89B19AEAAD411B9D200A0C9FB5699E88DF5@craius.cportcorp.co m> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:35 PM 8/3/2001, Peter Buckley wrote: >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? Yup. The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous? http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10 Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/