RE: cygcrypt-0.dll infected

["Harig, Mark" <maharig at idirect dot net>]

> 
> It's amazing how many people use broken anti-virus software, 
> judging by
> the number of times this was reported.  The real solution is 
> to get the
> anti-virus patterns fixed.  One workaround that was suggested was to
> recompile libcrypt, which removes the pattern (one can assume that the
> pattern just happened to coincide with the DLL's date stamp 
> -- go figure).
> 
> I'm half-tempted to suggest leaving the package as-is, just to force
> people to complain to their anti-virus provider.  

FWIW, I have done that today (complained to the anti-virus provider).

The md5sum for crypt is correct for dowloads from several mirrors, and
only after scanning for a virus in the .tar.bz2 file is the md5sum
changed.

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