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I don't know if it is related, but today I ran a scan with Kaspersky 
Internet Security 2009, and it reported that a couple of files in the 
cygwin directories were infected by Net_Worm.win32.sassor.be.

These were:

   coreutils-6.7-1.tar.bzz
   coreutils-6.7-2.tar.bzz

and more specifically:

   coreutils-6.7-2//user/bin/gkill.exe

I'll post a new thread on this.


John Sellers wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed">When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP 
> machine, my firewall informs me of regedit activity, searching, and 
> text manipulation.  I have not located the source of this activity.
>
> The install is a clean one without any significant Internet activity 
> that might lead to any third-party detection or downloads to my machine.
>
> Is this behavior expected or have I picked up something nasty from setup?
> </div>
>


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