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From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
To: "'Nathaniel AT booktailor DOT com'" <Nathaniel AT booktailor DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Virus report in cygwin
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:35:08 -0400 
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Try another anti-virus program. McAfee is 
famous for its false positives 
on .tar.gz files. Don't worry, 99 to 1 odds 
(or better) that there is no virus in the 
file. Maybe this should be a faq? Maybe it 
is in the faq already? 

Or... what if the link to "email cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" 
had a little line next to it that said "please 
don't send virus reports, they are probably false 
positives, check the faq." 

Or maybe the link could be 
mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com subject="I have read the faq and am not sending a
virus report"


I think the reason that there wouldn't be a windows virus is because 
IIRC the file was compiled on linux... 

Maybe that should be in the faq "many 
of the packages are compiled on linux, and therefore 
it is highly unlikely that they have a windows virus"- 
I remember cgf saying that package xxx was compiled on linux, 
but I don't know if all of them are.

-Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathaniel AT booktailor DOT com [mailto:Nathaniel AT booktailor DOT com]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:47 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Virus report in cygwin


McAfee anti-virus 4.5.0 is reporting a virus in the perl .tar.gz for the
latest cygwin download

Regards,
Nathaniel


Nathaniel Cross
Booktailor Ltd., 10 Barley Mow Passage, London W4 4PH
Tel: 020-8987-9269
www.booktailor.com, www.booktailortravel.com



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