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Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 27 Mar 2018 08:53:38 -0000 Issue 10744
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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:45:01 +0200
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On 4/18/2018 3:15 AM, Stephen Lyons wrote:
> On 27/03/2018 09:53, cygwin-digest-help AT cygwin DOT com wrote:

> 
> For unusual reasons I was looking at my EMail on a Windows PC and it's
> Anti-Virus (AVG Free) detected a Win32:Malware-gen infection in the file
> Inquiry.exe inside Inquiry.gz inside the third message of this digest
> (Issue: 10744) - given that that was a spam message anyhow, is such
> *malicious* junk common in this mailing list?  Is it was just that I
> happened to be using a vulnerable platform (i.e. Windows) whereas I
> normally lurk from a *nix one that means I'm encountering something that
> Windows/Cygwin users see frequently here?
> 
> Stephen
> 

We have noted an increase of SPAM and some are passing through the
filters of the mailing list.

It is usually not common but in my experience gmail is rejecting
5-10 mail per year from the mailing list due to dangerous attachment.

Regards
Marco


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