Cannot Run Executable Files

[Mark Hansen]

On 1/11/2016 7:41 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Zac G. Al Wakeel<ghanimm4@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>  For the archives, would you say which software was causing the problem?
>>
>>  I was using Avast, free software.
>
> Then I recommend uninstalling it and switching to Windows Defender.  I predict that your problems will not return.
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I use AVG which also has a free version (http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download).

Once in a while, it tries to "vault" a cygwin executable. I just tell it to put it back
and leave it alone. There's probably a way to tell it to just ignore the whole cygwin
directory, but the problem has not come up enough to warrant looking up how to do this.

Good luck.

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