Possible virus

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Apr 6 14:48:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:34:06PM -0700, Reginald Charney wrote:
>FYI,
>
>In downloading cygwin today, by virus detection software (McAfee VirusScan
>w/SP v4.5.0.534) claimed that the file:
>
>
>C:\My Download
>Files\contrib\postgresql\postgresql-7.1RC2-1.src.tar.gz\postgresql-7.1RC2-1.
>src.tar
>
>
>was infected with a virus that it could not clean or fix.

I have to wonder how a file which (I presume) contains no executable files
could be considered to be "virus infected".

cgf

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