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Re: setup.exe hijacked?


On 2009-09-10 08:04Z, Michael PARKER wrote:
> I've just tried downloading setup.exe from www.cygwin.com,
> only to find that it crashes when run on my WinXP x64 desktop. 

I downloaded it from there just now, and it has the same
md5sum as a copy I had downloaded three months ago:
  4f3f250cb9704fda2c241347cb689a8f

> Running a diff on the "strings" output of the new file vs. a
> "known good" version of setup.exe, I see (amongst garbage)
> the following:
> 
>> http://lcontent.ebuddy.com/web_banners/invocation.html?z=575
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Vary: Accept-Encoding
>> Content-Type: text/html
[...]

Could it be that what you actually saved was not setup.exe
but rather some 'ebuddy' message?

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