Sigh. False positive.
Reported 27 times already. Multiple postings over the last three days. Every single one was a FALSE positive. Complain to symantec. And next time, *you* check the archives. --Chuck P.S. When posting on an archived public mailing list, you probably don't want to include your home phone number. Talk about bad ideas... Brian & Sara Feather wrote: > Hello, > > I've got some BAD news. Norton just found a copy of backdoor.egghead in > latest/zlib/zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz of the installation files for Cygwin that > I downloaded last month (January 10). Norton also found the trojan in > d:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll and in c:\windows\temp\usr_bin_cygz.dll (twice at > different times). It is also in several A00*.CPY files in > c:\_RESTORE\TEMP. I have Windows ME 4.90.3000 . I have attached a copy > of "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out". I will deal with the virus > problem. I don't think it can fully activate on Windows ME. My biggest > concern are the several WIN2000 machines at work that may now be > infected (shake, tremble, fear). > > Please check your archives I have also included the setup.log from the > original download. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
