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Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe




Gianni Mariani schrieb::

> I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is 
> infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well, 
> sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing.
> This is the md5 of the setup.exe I downloaded.
> 
> 616c0f35c0abf14d00a82a7bea1f1b2c  setup.exe
> 
> I really hope this is a false alarm but it's too coincidental to not 
> bring to some-one's attention.

I did download the same file, f-prot an AntiVir did not find anything 
suspect. You should send the file the the vendors of yor AV-Software, 
the should fix their scan-engine.

Elmar




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