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AVG detects malware in python2&3 setuptools gui.exe and gui-32.exe


Hi cygwin python maintainers and users,

AVG Free detects malware in the gui.exe and gui-32.exe files which
are part of the cygwin 64-bit versions of the python2 and python3
setuptools package.

These files are provided by the python-setuptools packages.
Reinstalling these packages will repair the problem.

When submitted to VirusTotal, only 3 out of 54 virus scanners
suspected a problem. Even the version of AVG run by VirusTotal thinks
the files are OK.

The detection of problems with these 4 files appears to be a false positive.


Attached is a manual transcript of the AVG virus report.

Attached is the current output from "cygcheck -svr" on my 64-bit only
cygwin install.

Your attention is appreciated,
Doug

-- 
Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Attachment: cygcheck-svr.txt
Description: Text document

Attachment: avg-cygwin-python-gui.txt
Description: Text document

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