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Re: Virus Found
- To: Jonathan Urbach <urbach at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Virus Found
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:30:44 -0400
At 02:08 PM 9/10/2001, Jonathan M. Urbach wrote:
>Hello!
>
> I was installing cygwin from the internet. I believe that I was
>using the mirrors.rcn.net download site. My virus software, VirusScan,
>detected a virus in
>gdb\gdb-20010428-1.src.tar.gz.tmp\GDB-20010428-1-SRC.TAR.GZ
>
> You might want to check on that.
You should refer to the FAQ for things like this (it makes for useful
reading regardless of course!) Here's the appropriate entry for this
case:
The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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