hacked package on server

[Carlo Florendo]

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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