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From: "Brad Morgan" <Brad DOT Morgan AT horizonint DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:49:40 -0600
Message-ID: <NABBJOOEOFODEALNMJAJCEFAGBAA.Brad.Morgan@horizonint.com>
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In-Reply-To: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5A0AA308@xchangeserver2.storigen.com>

Since I really did want to do a full anti-virus scan on my laptop, I used
WinZip to backup
the C:\cygwin directory to a zip file on a networked drive, deleted the
C:\cygwin directory
and ran the full scan successfully.

I then restored the C:\cygwin directory with WinZip and ran the full scan
again with no errors!

So that says to me it wasn't the files in the C:\cygwin directory that
caused the problem, but the structure of the C:\cygwin directory.

What part of the directory structure have I "undone" with a WinZip backup
and restore?

For what I use, Cygwin appears to be working correctly so far.  Is there a
better tool to use if I need to do this again in the future?

Regards,

Brad

P.S.  The anti-virus program was choosen by the company, I'm just trying to
be a good corporate citizen here.  This all started when the laptop (which
didn't have F-Secure installed) was "alive in the wild" while I was in
Japan, I thought a good inspection was in order when I returned.


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