Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:37:50 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: anybody else also infected Message-ID: <20020214153750.GJ23253@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <01A7DAF31F93D511AEE300D0B706ED92019ECD65@axcs13.cos.agilent.com> <4.3.1.2.20020214091816.01ee0518@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20020214094510.01ea0710@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3C6BD3F7.5080606@cportcorp.com> <8369-Thu14Feb2002153122+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8369-Thu14Feb2002153122+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:31:22PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Thursday 14 Feb 02, Peter Buckley writes: >> I agree about the healthy skepticism- this was obviously a false >> positive from the very start, but I don't think the faq addresses this >> type of false positive. > >Addressing virus alerts in the FAQ has always been a dilemma for me. >I do not like to give the advice "disable your antivirus software" or >"turn off checking for C:\cygwin". It seems to me that such action >could be exploited. > >Should the FAQ say something like "do not bother the list with virus >alerts unless you have independently verified that it is not a false >positive"? This would apply to all Cygwin software, package archives, >DLLs, ... > >There was a special problem with Cygwin Setup because NAI/McAfee would >hang the system when opening tar.gz archives. Maybe this is not a >problem anymore, and can be removed from the FAQ. Or the advice could >be simplified to be "update your antivirus software or replace it with >another vendor's product". Of course not everyone can do that, but >that's not our problem. > >Thanks for your opinions. My opinion is that common-sense practices don't belong in the FAQ. cgf -- 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/