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: <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:30:44 -0400 To: Jonathan Urbach , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Virus Found In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:08 PM 9/10/2001, Jonathan M. Urbach wrote: >Hello! > > I was installing cygwin from the internet. I believe that I was >using the mirrors.rcn.net download site. My virus software, VirusScan, >detected a virus in >gdb\gdb-20010428-1.src.tar.gz.tmp\GDB-20010428-1-SRC.TAR.GZ > > You might want to check on that. You should refer to the FAQ for things like this (it makes for useful reading regardless of course!) Here's the appropriate entry for this case: 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/