love fun virus in setup.exe

Andrej Borsenkow Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru
Wed Jul 18 04:16:00 GMT 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Stefan Keil
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 2:55 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: love fun virus in setup.exe
>
>
> Hi,
>
> after I upgraded to version 2.78 of setup.exe it was reported
> by Norton AV 2000 to contain a Love.Fun virus. A complete scan
> of all drives found no other problem with any file.
>
> I upgraded a couple of days ago so maybe the version has changed
> already,
> but please be alert and scan your local version!
>


Please, try several AV products before claiming "virus found". I'm using
Trend Micro OfficeScan and *never* had any single false alarm with Cygwin
products (I had with other files several times).

-andrej


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