Virus in cpio.exe ?

David Stacey drstacey@tiscali.co.uk
Sat Nov 15 14:17:00 GMT 2014


On 15/11/14 13:12, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> virustotal.com found several suspicious files in Cygwin : 
> https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds/issues/20#issuecomment-62910085 
>
> I downloaded the original on Cygwin website and found the same virus 
> in cpio.exe (not in the 2 others files and I didn't find ln.exe in 
> Cygwin) :
> https://www.virustotal.com/fr/file/6ec8ec41fac40988330badf7f4ada72948657bf06fb71cf76ef7eb2bc0c5b3bf/analysis/ 
>

Thank you for reporting this, but it is highly likely that these are 
false positives:
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus

Please could you report these as false positives to the anti-virus company.

Dave.


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