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: <4.3.1.2.20010910144037.02f7f148@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 14:44:59 -0400 To: David Starks-Browning , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Virus Found In-Reply-To: <9923-Mon10Sep2001193726+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> References: <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:37 PM 9/10/2001, David Starks-Browning wrote: >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. The more obvious, the better! Do you think you can get this entry to flash in front for of user's when they install? ;-) Thanks David for your very helpful suggestion. Before anyone misinteprets my "suggestion" as serious, I want to clarify it was not. 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/