X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4CDECF8B.9040708@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:59 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and AVG References: <4CDEC92F.6000403@alice.it> In-Reply-To: <4CDEC92F.6000403@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 11/13/2010 12:21 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > After the update from AVG9 Free to AVG 2011 Free, I notice a great slow > down using Cygwin. A few applications, like 'wget' and 'python', are > marked as 'malaware' by the new AVG (surely false positives), and now > building things take much more time. For example, a full bootstrap of > Emacs, takes more than an hour. Under AVG9, instead, it took *only* > about 25 minutes. > Has Cygwin people ideas/tricks on how avoid this? > Perhaps is time to change AV? I've noticed the same thing. I've also started seeing problems that look like BLODA. I just uninstalled AVG and am trying Avast instead. Ken -- 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