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 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:37:26 +0100 Message-ID: <9923-Mon10Sep2001193726+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Virus Found In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> On Monday 10 Sep 01, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > > 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 Indeed, but it's not as obvious as it should be. People don't bother with the README file now that setup.exe works so well, so I should re-do this FAQ entry. Cheers, David -- 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/