Norton 2005 blocks? Worm trojan horses in wget and rsync?

[Larry Hall]

At 06:59 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
> 
>For about a week Norton 2005 on xp service pack 2 pops up with msg it has
>blocked various worms and trojan horses from wget and rsync. I have run
>cygwin for 4 or 5 years  with no issues at all. Full scan by norton finds
>nothing. I did install w3mir about 3 weeks ago on 1 machine about 4 weeks
>ago. Anyone else have similar issues? Search of this list for worm trojan
>gave 1 hit relating to email.


You probably should read the FAQ entry referenced below:

Is Cygwin Setup, or one of the packages, infected with a virus?
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC11>

What it says applies equally as well to anything you might download 
via wget and rsync.


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