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


There is no virus in setup.exe as distributed by Cygwin.  I think there's been
enough reports on this list to confirm that this is the case.

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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At 02:04 PM 5/2/2002, Winston Gutkowski wrote:
>Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus
>checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the
>situation.
>
>Thanks
>
>Winston Gutkowski
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> > Of Elmar Haneke
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:36
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: 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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