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From: "Winston Gutkowski" <winston DOT gutkowski AT eztext DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:04:06 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <3CD14EB4.5010908@haneke.de>

Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus
checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the
situation.

Thanks

Winston Gutkowski

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Elmar Haneke
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:36
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
>
>
>
>
> Gianni Mariani schrieb::
>
> > I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is
> > infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well,
> > sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing.
> > This is the md5 of the setup.exe I downloaded.
> >
> > 616c0f35c0abf14d00a82a7bea1f1b2c  setup.exe
> >
> > I really hope this is a false alarm but it's too coincidental to not
> > bring to some-one's attention.
>
> I did download the same file, f-prot an AntiVir did not find anything
> suspect. You should send the file the the vendors of yor AV-Software,
> the should fix their scan-engine.
>
> Elmar
>
>
>
>
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