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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:04:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: setup + mingwc10.dll + windows 98 = crash!!
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In-Reply-To: <392A0F5E.1928E5DA@cls.usask.ca>; from emil@cls.usask.ca on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:55:58PM -0600

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:55:58PM -0600, Emil Hallin wrote:
>The culprit is McAfee. I have verified this on both windows 98 and windows
>NT, but not 2000 professional. Disable McAfee and your installation will
>proceed to completion...at least it did here. No problems whatsoever with
>Norton Antivirus; and the problem has nothing to do with setup in specific.
>Try untarring the file by hand; when I do that and McAfee is running, the
>tar process hangs and takes 100% of the CPU on NT or it just "freezes" on
>9*.

Is anyone interested in notifying McAfee about this?  Even if mingwc10.dll
was virus infested, this is not an appropriate way for a system utility
to act.

cgf

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