Virus Found

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:08 PM 9/10/2001, Jonathan M. Urbach wrote:

>Hello!
>
>         I was installing cygwin from the internet. I believe that I was
>using the mirrors.rcn.net download site. My virus software, VirusScan,
>detected a virus in
>gdb\gdb-20010428-1.src.tar.gz.tmp\GDB-20010428-1-SRC.TAR.GZ
>
>         You might want to check on that.


You should refer to the FAQ for things like this (it makes for useful 
reading regardless of course!)  Here's the appropriate entry for this 
case:


The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10




Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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