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Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python
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- Subject: Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python
- From: Shirley Goldstein <cusgsjn at alpha dot oac dot ucla dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:28:36 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you for the reassurance that these are probably not "real" bugs.
I have found with other packages that tar.gz files with unfortunate
unix-style permissions trigger McAfee to report a bug that it can't name.
There is no readme file on http://www.cygwin.com although there are
at least 92 readmes in the installed download.
Shirley Goldstein
UCLA-Academic Technology Services
5308 Math Science, Box 951557
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1557
(310)206-9605
cusgsjn@ucla.edu
http://www.ats.ucla.edu
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 14:21:43 -0400
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <lhall@rfk.com>
To: Shirley Goldstein <cusgsjn@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python
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
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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