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Re: Virus Found


At 02:37 PM 9/10/2001, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Monday 10 Sep 01, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes:
> > >         I was installing cygwin from the internet. I believe that I was
> > >using the mirrors.rcn.net download site. My virus software, VirusScan,
> > >detected a virus in
> > >gdb\gdb-20010428-1.src.tar.gz.tmp\GDB-20010428-1-SRC.TAR.GZ
> > >
> > >         You might want to check on that.
> > 
> > 
> > You should refer to the FAQ for things like this (it makes for useful 
> > reading regardless of course!)  Here's the appropriate entry for this 
> > case:
> > 
> > The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
> > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10
>
>Indeed, but it's not as obvious as it should be.  People don't bother
>with the README file now that setup.exe works so well, so I should
>re-do this FAQ entry.


The more obvious, the better!  Do you think you can get this entry to
flash in front for of user's when they install? ;-)

Thanks David for your very helpful suggestion.  Before anyone misinteprets
my "suggestion" as serious, I want to clarify it was not. 



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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