Cygwin & Virus

[Karthik Balaguru]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 3/13/2010 7:26 PM, Karthik Balaguru wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Since cygwin is a windows utility that provides linux environment.
>> What is the probability of the linux environment to get infected by
>> virus ?
>
> Very low.  If you have a virus checker that's pointing at a Cygwin
> utility as a virus, I'd recommend running that reported virus-infected
> file against at least a few other checkers before drawing any firm
> conclusions.

Is there any preferred checker from cygwin ?

> FWIW, there has never been a confirmed virus from any
> Cygwin utility installed via 'setup.exe'.
>

Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru

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