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Re: Why is regedit referenced?


I don't know if it is related, but today I ran a scan with Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, and it reported that a couple of files in the cygwin directories were infected by Net_Worm.win32.sassor.be.

These were:

  coreutils-6.7-1.tar.bzz
  coreutils-6.7-2.tar.bzz

and more specifically:

coreutils-6.7-2//user/bin/gkill.exe

I'll post a new thread on this.


John Sellers wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed">When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP machine, my firewall informs me of regedit activity, searching, and text manipulation. I have not located the source of this activity.

The install is a clean one without any significant Internet activity that might lead to any third-party detection or downloads to my machine.

Is this behavior expected or have I picked up something nasty from setup?
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