CSAgent warning with setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Will Parsons wrote:
>I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work.  The IT
> department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now
> when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "tried to make
> system call from self-modifying code" and that this may mean the program
> has been subverted by a buffer overflow attack.
>
> Is this true and if so is it something I should worry about?

setup.exe does contain some legitimate self-modifying code (in autoload.c if 
anyone is interested).

So, it's fairly likely this is a false alarm.

Max.


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