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Re: AVG detects malware in python2&3 setuptools gui.exe and gui-32.exe
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:25:27 +0400
- Subject: Re: AVG detects malware in python2&3 setuptools gui.exe and gui-32.exe
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <CAJ1FpuPOq7NqBPHG8Ma0YRKeb0H3ikXa7_xSr-2ZDcrbeOzqUg at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, Doug Henderson!
> 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.
The report indicate the "corrupted executable file". That's not a "virus"
detection per se.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 10.08.2014, <22:24>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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