Martha Adams wrote: > Hi, I'm a Cygwin user for some time past; and I check > my machine frequently using Grisoft AVG Free. On Aug 10 my AVG found > something called Obfustat.GCD > (not Obfustated.GCD) which it said had infested > several files with particular focus on Cygwin. I have > Googled on 'Obfustat.GCD' and today one hit came > up: > minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/299856/blog/5808766/ > > which is in Japanese but Google does a translation > of sorts. This apparently was posted Aug 8, and the > writer mentions Cygwin. > > On Aug 9 my AVG found 'Win32/Polycrypt' as seven > or so *.dll files including Byte\Byte.dll, CN\CN.dll, and > EBCDIC\EBCDIC.dll. > > Two attacks in two days, gets my attention. Does it > deserve yours, and a general warning?
No - they are almost certainly false positives, and it has already been noted here. AVG was reporting Polycrypt and/or Obfustat on various Cygwin files from Aug 8th to Aug 13th, but the current virus data files seem ok. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/