Cygwin setup reporter as malware

[Bill Stewart]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote:

The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection
>
> Can this be resolved somehow?


This is, of course, a false positive.

There are basically two things you can do:

1. Exempt it from your scanner.

2. Report it to the vendor as a false positive.