You should at least provide the md5 of the downloaded exe. Then you should upload it to virustotal.com for analysis.
Regards, LLoyd On 2 May 2016 at 01:38, Ron Gaw <ronml...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On 4/30/2016, I was performing a regular update by running setup-x86_64.exe > (not Cygwin DLL 2.5.1, was older version but have lost that info because of > what came next). > > During the run of setup I had downloaded earlier this year, the setup program > gave the message that a newer version of setup was available. This is > standard from my experience, so I went to the Cygwin home page and downloaded > the latest setup-x86_64.exe, version Cygwin DLL 2.5.1 (overwriting the > previous version I had saved). > > When I ran setup-x86_64.exe (the newly downloaded version 2.5.1), AVG popped > up and warned that IDP.ARES.Generic was detected attempting to install, and > asked me to "Protect" by removing the threat. I (hopefully) erred on the > side of caution and agreed to the protection. > > I've searched the Mailing lists at Cygwin and I've Google searched for the > IDP.ARES.Generic issue (including variations of the Google search to require > mention of Cygwin in the results returned), but I'm not finding anything. > > My currently installed Cygwin suite of apps all still seem to work fine (I > wouldn't expect anything different), but wasn't sure if AVG had really found > something in Cygwin SETUP or if this is a false alarm. Not savy enough (yet) > to dig into the bits inside setup-x86_64.exe and confirm the threat is real. > > Sorry for the verbose background, but ... use Cygwin (apps) all the time, > hoping to get a confirmation on the validity of this threat? > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
