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From: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, <David_Abrahams AT dragonsys DOT com>
References: <OF0A11B27C DOT 92893305-ON852569F7 DOT 000EB08F AT dragonsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Infected Perl?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:23:43 -0800
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McAfee always reports most .gz files, and many Windows program
installers, as viruses.  I found McAfee intolerable, and went into the
Add/Remove menu to reconfigure with all available options turned off.
You ought to be able to add .gz to a list of excluded file types, but
you may still find that McAfee slows your cygwin scripts by a factor of
5 or more.  I found scripts dying and my T20 going into standby, even
though I disabled file checking.  Even Office 2000 runs intolerably slow
or dies on W2K with McAfee in default configuration; our 700 Mhz laptops
act like 70 Mhz.  Not a satisfactory situation, as we do get real
viruses in Office files.
----- Original Message -----
From: <David_Abrahams AT dragonsys DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:41 PM
Subject: Infected Perl?


> during a cygwin update, McAfee virus scan reports:
> The file
>
C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz.tmp\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR.GZ
is
> infected and cannot be cleaned
> The file
C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR
> is
> infected and cannot be cleaned
> (and one other Perl-related file which didn't save the report for)
>
> Is there any chance that this isn't just misinformation?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> (p.s. Please respond to my home email address: abrahams AT mediaone DOT net -
for
> some reason you are blocking mail from my mailserver).
>
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