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Re: buggy software


Bill Briel wrote:

> Please be advised that I downloaded several cygwin files from your site.
> After rebooting, I was greeted with a deleted mouse driver and a changed
> bootlog. Having corrected this problem, I have removed cgywin from my
> computer. Good joke, but poor business. Retaliation would be too juvenile.


Yep. You caught us.  All 2000 subscribers to this mailing list are in a 
conspiracy to destroy user's Windows installations because we hate MS.

Geez.  The things people believe.

Seriously, there is no intentional attempt to 'delete [your] mouse 
driver" or "change [your] bootlog".  If that happened to you, I'd check 
a few things:
   1) run a virus scan -- perhaps you got infected by something during 
the same session in which you installed cygwin. This would only show up 
at the next reboot.
   2) Eeek: perhaps (*perhaps*) the mirror from which you downloaded 
cygwin has been compromised, and the tarballs there are infected. (This 
is doubtful, but easy to check:  get the md5sums from a *different* 
mirror, and run 'md5sum -c' on each tarball that setup saved on your 
hard drive.  Which mirror did you use?

--Chuck



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