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: <3B9D3A6B.3000109@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:10:51 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Virus Found References: <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910144037.02f7f148@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:44:59PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>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? ;-) >> > > You've got a smiley there, but I think that this actually might be a good idea. > I'd like to add more words to the setup process like: > > "Turn off your virus software" and "Hey! Check out /usr/doc for more info." How about a port of 'fortune' with a custom 'tips' database? Put it in the default /etc/profile... --Chuck -- 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/