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RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Winston Gutkowski" <winston dot gutkowski at eztext dot com>, "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 18:47:49 -0400
- Subject: RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
- References: <3CD14EB4.5010908@haneke.de>
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
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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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