Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020502184626.02660f60@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:47:49 -0400 To: "Winston Gutkowski" , "Cygwin" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe In-Reply-To: References: <3CD14EB4.5010908@haneke.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" There is no virus in setup.exe as distributed by Cygwin. I think there's been enough reports on this list to confirm that this is the case. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 02:04 PM 5/2/2002, Winston Gutkowski wrote: >Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus >checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the >situation. > >Thanks > >Winston Gutkowski > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > > Of Elmar Haneke > > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:36 > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on > > http://cygwin.com/setup.exe > > > > > > > > > > Gianni Mariani schrieb:: > > > > > I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is > > > infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well, > > > sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing. > > > This is the md5 of the setup.exe I downloaded. > > > > > > 616c0f35c0abf14d00a82a7bea1f1b2c setup.exe > > > > > > I really hope this is a false alarm but it's too coincidental to not > > > bring to some-one's attention. > > > > I did download the same file, f-prot an AntiVir did not find anything > > suspect. You should send the file the the vendors of yor AV-Software, > > the should fix their scan-engine. > > > > Elmar > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > > > >-- >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/ -- 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/