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Re: virus warning


False positive. The latest version of the defs 40213av 02/13/02 correct 
this mistake by symantec.

HTH,
Peter

Schlichtemeier, Joel wrote:

> Be careful downloading the distributions.  I've found the backdoor.egghead virus (a def for it was just put up by Symantec) in cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll.  Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of which mirror I got it from.  The definition and removal instructions are here:
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.egghead.html
> 
> Now that they've updated their defs, your default download scan should pick it up.
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