EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

[Dante Allegria]

--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register <damon.w.register@lmco.com> wrote:

> this at a company.  Is that so?  Do you have an
> aggressive IS department who might have decided they don't like Cygwin?

No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build scripts:
   rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/*

<sigh> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)

Thanks for all those who replied!

dante



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