Virus Found
David Starks-Browning
starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Mon Sep 10 11:37:00 GMT 2001
On Monday 10 Sep 01, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> > 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
Indeed, but it's not as obvious as it should be. People don't bother
with the README file now that setup.exe works so well, so I should
re-do this FAQ entry.
Cheers,
David
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