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Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
- From: Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:25:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
- References: <CAALQ5rnmuEtm6208hQd2qo9FKWmdT=N7RFEg5QqqaZeCgoG3vQ@mail.gmail.com> <87y37eudwo.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 18:19 Achim Gratz wrote:
> Michael Wild writes:
> > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing
> > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction
> > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd
> > expect others to have seen this issue too.
>
> It wouldn't be the first time antivirus heuristics target UPX routines
> instead of actual malware code. You'll have to wait for the vendor or
> your organization to whitelist the relatively new setup.exe (unless
> you're allowed to do that yourself).
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>
Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX
compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my custom
compiled versions.
Michael
>
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