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Subject: Re: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:17:17 -0700
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On 03/28/11 07:43, Dante Allegria wrote:
> We just discovered that a whole bunch of our Windows machines had everything under their c:/cygwin directories deleted over the weekend. Has anyone else experienced this? Just trying to rule out some sort of malware/virus related to Earth Hour or perhaps some internal process gone awry.
>
> Thanks!
>
> dante
Have you checked for disgruntled Microsoft fanboys? ;-)
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