'bad image error' while trying to run cygwin terminal on my windows 10 laptop

[Marco Atzeri]

On 17/09/2017 08:29, Hanit Hakim wrote:
> hi!
> i did not find an answer on your lists to this question.
> i recently downloaded cygwin to my laptop. after it worked for a few hours,
> it suddenly threw a bad image error. the message i'm getting when trying to
> run the cygwin terminal, is: C:\cygwin64\bin\cygwin1.dll is either not
> designed to run on Windows or it contains an error...
> i already tried to reinstall it, but the error just came back.
> are you familier with the problem and can help me solve it? i found it hard
> to get information about this online.
> thank you.

Hi Hanit,
it seems a Virus or Antivirus that is blocking the cygwin1.dll.

as first can you follow
   https://cygwin.com/problems.html
and provide as attachment the cygcheck.out.

Which Antivirus are you using ? There is anything in the AV logs ?

Regards
Marco









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