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Re: hacked package on server


Louis Kruger wrote:

> As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it > might have been some kind of trojan.

Are you able to actually describe "strange behaviour"

It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installing strangely named files. It also corrupted the cygwin package directory. I could not run the setup program again even using a different mirror until I cleaned out the file /etc/setup/vim.lst.gz. Your evidence seems to indicate that it is simple corruption rather than tampering. I am pleased to see that.

And this evidence indicates that your system is infected *before* you even run setup.exe. So beware. ;-)


Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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