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Re: Cygcrypt-0.dll ad-aware trojan alert


On 2007-08-21 15:27Z, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 21 August 2007 16:05, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 21 August 2007 15:52, PTBluster wrote:
>>
>>> I just ran Ad-aware and got a hit for the IROffer object which uses
>>> cygcrypt-0.dll. I've searched Ad-ware forum and with Google but could not
>>> find much. I think cygcrypt-0.dll is a legit library file so I am wondering
>>> if this hit is significant?
>>   Almost certainly a false alarm... hang on, I'll update my .def file and check
>> for you.
> 
>   Reproduced.  Yep, it's a false alarm.  md5sum still the same as
> freshly-extracted copy from the package tarball.

FWIW, I ran 'cygcrypt-0.dll' with md5sum fcaaad96b6b4e41dbaf9076109dcb964 through
  http://virusscan.jotti.org/
and its twenty malware scanners all found nothing. Perhaps that helps if the OP
wishes to report this false positive to Ad-aware.

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