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Re: tmux being picked up by AVG antivirus?
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:37:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: tmux being picked up by AVG antivirus?
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- References: <54C16199 dot 70703 at dullroar dot com>
On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:46 -0600, Jim Lehmer wrote:
> AVG 2015, auto-updated as of this morning, picked up newly-installed
> tmux as an "Unknown" threat with source "Identity Protection" when I
> tried to run tmux for the first time. I have submitted it to AVG for
> analysis but don't hold out much hope there.
>
> Anyone else seen this? Any idea as to why? I can see by the tmux doc
> (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1)
> that it uses a *IX-style socket in /tmp to communicate between client
> and server, I wonder if that is what triggered it?
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.virus
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Yaakov
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