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Subject: RE: AVG flags Cygwin files
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:50 +0100
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David Arnstein wrote on 24 July 2008 17:22:

> I find that AVG 8.0 (Windows anti-virus product) frequently flags
> Cygwin files as being infected.

  Argh.  Still, all AVs get false positives now and again, and Grisoft are
very responsive about fixing them if you report it.

> Last night, AVG quarantined these files:
> ncurses-5.5.3.tar.bz2	(Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABKD)
> zip-2.32-2.tar.bz2	(Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABHQ)
> toe.exe			(Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABKD)
> zip.exe			(Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABHQ)

  You can also configure AVG to exclude your cygwin install tree from being
scanned.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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