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Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
- From: Gianni Mariani <gianni at mariani dot ws>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:51:01 -0700
- Subject: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
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.
Or it could be that it's a coincidence that as soon as I asked other
developers to install cywin they all got it as well, and it may also be
just a coincidence that after installing a fresh copy of everything and
rebooted and all was *almost* fine (because some commands -like ls.exe-
didn't install), but my machine instantly rebooted when I tried to run
the cygwin setup the second time.
I really am not sure but I encourage everyone to make sure that I'm wrong.
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.
G
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