Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory. X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:25:54 -0400 Message-ID: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5A0AA308@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Scott Prive" To: "Brad Morgan" , Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g49JQJU06109 Brad, a workaround: Configure your antivirus program to "exclude" scanning the Cygwin directory. This is a very common question.. might be in FAQ?, I'm not sure. Outdated AV software will accuse Cygwin of being a virus... I'm not so sure I would want (or trust) antivirus software that *bluescreens*... especially on a production box if that is the case. Cheers, Scott -----Original Message----- From: Brad Morgan [mailto:Brad DOT Morgan AT horizonint DOT com] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:13 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory. > I wanted to see if this audience had any cygwin specific knowledge that might be helpful in either solving or working around this problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/