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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: CSAgent warning with setup.exe
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:04:05 -0000
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----Original Message----
>From: Jean-Sebastien Trottier
>Sent: 06 March 2005 04:10

> Hmmm... I just tried running http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe from my
> computer at Cisco and the security agent did not report any warnings...

  Since it is a known fact that it _does_ legitimately contain
self-modifying code, the fact that your system doesn't warn must mean it is
not configured to warn about self-modifying code.

> I don't want to be alarming but maybe you should investigate a bit
> further...

  Well, your report is a false negative, so it's not grounds for suspicion
in itself.
 
> At what time during the execution/installation did the warning appear?

  It should be pretty much immediately the thing gets running, as soon as it
tries to call any of the wininet or advapi/scm functions.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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