Eric Freudenthal wrote on 31 August 2008 23:30: > I just installed cygwin under vista from a http mirror on > gtlab.gatech.edu. I noticed that an process named sddt.exe gobbled > many cycles during the installation. afterwards, I could neither find > a file by this name, nor could find it in the cygwin tars. I'd love > to know that sddt was supposed to run at that time, and would probably > be better off knowing if it was not.
Bad news I'm afraid. There's nothing called "sddt.exe" in any cygwin package (see http://cygwin.com/packages/ where you can search for it), and google finds a few places referring to it as malware. You'd better assume the worst. I don't *think* the gatech mirror is corrupt; the signatures on the setup index files verify ok. However, if it did come from there, it'd likely still be inside one of the tarballs in your local package dir; you might want to rename the existing one safely out of the way and try reinstalling from a different mirror. If you can find the sddt.exe file, try submitting it to the Jotti or Virustotal online scanning services and see what they say. Sysinternals' Autorun and ProcessExplorer will come in handy here... but now we're getting OT. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/