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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:54:50 +0200
From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin install crashes & reboots without leaving a trace
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Arend Rensink wrote:
> On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
>
>> I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have.
>> The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some
>> third party program is killing the installer and deleting the
>> executable; that's just not something the installer will do.
>
> Yes, in te meanwhile I looked a bit further and found out that that's
> precisely what happens. The corresponding message is:
>
>> 25-9-2014 10:54:05    Quarantined    legal software that can be used by
>> criminals to damage your computer or personal data
>> PDM.Worm.P2P.generic    C:\CYGWIN\SETUP-X86.EXE
>
> (I don't suppose there is a worm, but you might be interested in knowing
> about this false positive.)

According to VirusTotal, some "Bkav" scanner reports a false positive 
for both current setup.exe versions:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/ea2a2322ccce15af2b68b36f0543f263529422baf41480d4f96b320a55289d71/analysis/1411478277/
https://www.virustotal.com/file/7eb582a3bc289fad3fdc7ebc3a921f8d6dc2759b7f42d905663d0577e9e683e1/analysis/1411563114/

Christian


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