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Thanks, 
All file look good,  I submitted to a couple of online file scanner 
sites and they confirmed no problem.  This appears to be a false 
positive with CA Antivirus...

BTW: After posting this message to the board I found 6 additional exe 
files that also caused false positives.  I posted these new files in a 
message to the board also, however they all checked out good also..

Ed


Dave Korn wrote:
> Ed Brady wrote:
>   
>> I just ran a virus scan, and got a hit for sed.exe.  
>> Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA.   Anyone else seen anything similar to this?
>>     
>
>   Seen a few false positives with AVG in my personal experience.  Most AVs run
> into the odd one now and again.  Some of them seem to have a fondness for
> Cygwin, probably because it's not part of any of their standard testing
> environments, so they wouldn't notice false positives in it before releasing a
> new .dat file.
>
>   
>> I run scans frequently and have never had this show up before I want to
>> believe that this is a false positive, but want to be sure...
>>     
>
>   Here's md5sums of my versions:
>
> 1.5:
> ~ $ cygcheck -c sed
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> sed                  4.1.5-2        OK
> ~ $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
> dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe
>
> 1.7:
> $ cygcheck -c sed
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> sed                  4.1.5-2        OK
>
> $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe
> dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe
>
>   If yours match (assuming same versions of course), you're clean.  For a
> second opinion, try uploading your sed.exe at http://virusscan.jotti.org/
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>   


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