Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:14 PM 7/3/2001, Shirley Goldstein wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This morning I downloaded from ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov the complete
>(default) cygwin download and installed it.  My virus checker
>(Network Associates McAfee VirusScan ww/SP v4.5.0.534
>Virus definitions: 4.0.4145  Scan Engine: 4.1.40)
>found 3 files it didn't like during the install, which it
>suggested be deleted as they were not clean-able:
>
>  7/3/01 10:03 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\latest\gdb\gdb-20010428-1.tar.gz\GDB-20010428-1.TAR     
>
>  7/3/01 10:04 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\ghostscript\ghostscript-5.50-2.tar.gz\GHOSTSCRIPT-5.50-2.TAR    
>
>  7/3/01 10:11 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\python\python-2.1-1.tar.gz\PYTHON-2.1-1.TAR
>
>
>Shirley Goldstein

See:

The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10


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