I've been a happy cygwin user for at least a decade, but starting this week I
can't seem to update any more, and in fact my installation is broken entirely.
When I run (a freshly downloaded) setup-x86.exe, at some point during install
the installer quits, the .exe-file is removed, and sometimes
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:46:57AM +0200, Arend Rensink wrote:
I've been a happy cygwin user for at least a decade, but starting this week I
can't seem to update any more, and in fact my installation is broken entirely.
When I run (a freshly downloaded) setup-x86.exe, at some point during
On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have.
The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some
third party program is killing the installer and deleting the
executable; that's just not something the installer will
Greetings, Arend Rensink!
I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have.
The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some
third party program is killing the installer and deleting the
executable; that's just not something the installer will do.
Yes, in
Arend Rensink wrote:
On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have.
The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some
third party program is killing the installer and deleting the
executable; that's just not
You might try renaming setup-x86.exe to something less scary like
cygwin-myfriend.exe, and using --no-admin option if not already.
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On 25/09/2014 14:18, Arend Rensink wrote:
On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
Unfortunately, the virus software configuration is set by university
policy, I can't touch it myself :-( (though I am of course also trying
to go that route).
you can also open a false positive reports with
On 25-9-2014 15:13, Andrey Repin wrote:
Kaspersky Antivirus is notoriously known for protecting the users from
their computers. Also, .Generic is a sign that the detection was based on
heuristics.
Good guess, it's Kaspersky.
On 25-9-2014 16:10, Bob wrote:
You might try renaming
Greetings, Arend Rensink!
Kaspersky Antivirus is notoriously known for protecting the users from
their computers. Also, .Generic is a sign that the detection was based on
heuristics.
Good guess, it's Kaspersky.
Was not a guess at all. The designation clearly pointed to KAV.
On 25-9-2014
Arend Rensink writes:
25-9-2014 10:54:05 Quarantined legal software that can be used by
criminals to damage your computer or personal data
PDM.Worm.P2P.generic C:\CYGWIN\SETUP-X86.EXE
(I don't suppose there is a worm, but you might be interested in knowing
about this false positive.)
Christian Franke writes:
According to VirusTotal, some Bkav scanner reports a false positive
for both current setup.exe versions:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/ea2a2322ccce15af2b68b36f0543f263529422baf41480d4f96b320a55289d71/analysis/1411478277/
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