X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <8540148a0708081943g68ff655ct381dde86c91bc6c2@mail.gmail.com> <20070809163154.GA15843@panix.com> Subject: RE: PERL's Encode::Byte is being flagged by AVGfree as WIN32/PolyCrypt anyonelse Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:57:45 +0100 Message-ID: <02f401c7daa6$6a1d2630$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20070809163154.GA15843@panix.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 09 August 2007 17:32, David Arnstein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:43:18PM -0700, William Deegan wrote: >> Anyone else seeing this? > > Yes. Last night, AVG (paid version) detected a massive 131 > Win32/PolyCrypt infections, mostly in Cygwin files. Yep, got that too, in a bunch of DLLs. Also, it managed to trip on a random selection of self-compiled object and library (.o and .a) files. > I suspect false positive here. Yes, we've established that beyond any reasonable doubt. > I emailed a request for help to the vendor. I also reported this and had back a reply saying their engineers have a fix and we should expect to see it in tonight's signature file update. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/