tmux being picked up by AVG antivirus?

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 22 22:07:00 GMT 2015


On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:46 -0600, Jim Lehmer wrote:
> AVG 2015, auto-updated as of this morning, picked up newly-installed 
> tmux as an "Unknown" threat with source "Identity Protection" when I 
> tried to run tmux for the first time. I have submitted it to AVG for 
> analysis but don't hold out much hope there.
> 
> Anyone else seen this? Any idea as to why? I can see by the tmux doc 
> (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1?query=tmux&sec=1) 
> that it uses a *IX-style socket in /tmp to communicate between client 
> and server, I wonder if that is what triggered it?

https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.virus

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Yaakov



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