Virus Total scan

[Dom Woods - BGS]

Hi Cygwin,

I scanned your application through Virus Total as per our company policy and noticed that the installation process calls out to a suspicious Microsoft IP 13.107.4.50, this ip has been flagged by 8 vendors as malicious, I get varying responses for what it is used for (an os updater or a file distributer) and wanted to ask what does Cygwin use it for? I can't seem to contact it with nslookup or ping it and Virus Total says that it gives a 'status 400' results so it might not be in use anymore anyway but just wanted to check.

Here is your Virus Total graph results: https://www.virustotal.com/graph/6bad4555154b3b348d1bfb633a2e9d6086aa46e36952f456a434ecef5b0010e0
Here is the scan of the IP address' results: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/3397a00da1c5aa448611892c12d38fee37fcd60321720a6e242cb0167e381901/detection


Kind regards,
Dom woods




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