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 Message-ID: <003801c2a350$d2995310$2a83883e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Jack Rose" , References: <001d01c2a31a$2c55e8a0$6501a8c0 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> Subject: Re: How did I get it? Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:11:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Jack Rose wrote: > Could some tell me how the CYGWIN1.DLL ended up on my computer. It > seems to have just appeared at 3:09am yesterday and I know I wasn't > working at that time. > > Could this have been uploaded to my machine for malicious purposes? > If so, what else should I be looking for, besides a better firewall > and virus detector? > > Any information would be appreciated... Well, someone (apparently not you) installed Cygwin, or a program which uses a cut down Cygwin install to function. What is the full path to Cygwin1.dll? If it is in Windows/System(32) or the equivalent, look in the registry at: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (NB: the value name is a single forward slash.), and the corresponding path in HKCU. The value of that will provide a hint. Max. -- 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/