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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:30:44 -0400
To: Jonathan Urbach <urbach AT molbio DOT mgh DOT harvard DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Virus Found
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At 02:08 PM 9/10/2001, Jonathan M. Urbach wrote:

>Hello!
>
>         I was installing cygwin from the internet. I believe that I was
>using the mirrors.rcn.net download site. My virus software, VirusScan,
>detected a virus in
>gdb\gdb-20010428-1.src.tar.gz.tmp\GDB-20010428-1-SRC.TAR.GZ
>
>         You might want to check on that.


You should refer to the FAQ for things like this (it makes for useful 
reading regardless of course!)  Here's the appropriate entry for this 
case:


The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10




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