X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_YG,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C0BBD49.3080508@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:22:49 +0100 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.5: problem running cygwin in Windows XP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 06/06/2010 06:04, Ramakishore Yelamanchilli wrote: > I installed cygwin and getting the following error running any > command. Please find the attached file with cygcheck output. You are infected by a fake-antivirus malware: > AVAPP = 'C:\Program Files\PersonalAV' > AVUNINST = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\PersonalAV\Uninstall.lnk' You need to disinfect your system; I googled some instructions and found http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/how-to-remove-personalav-removal-guide-t11001.htm After your system is clean, maybe the cygwin installation will start working, or maybe it might need re-installing through setup.exe; it's hard to tell how much the malware interfered with your installation. > DEFLOGDIR = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection' That's a real anti-virus, but McAfee products have been known to interfere with cygwin in the past, in a way very much like what you're seeing: fork failure messages. If cleaning the malware off your system doesn't fix everything, the next thing to try would be disabling any advanced heuristic or behaviour blocking features it has, or perhaps creating an exception for the on-access file scanner to exclude anything in the cygwin directories. See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda for more details about that potential issue. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple