On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote: > I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature.
This is covered in the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus > Is Cygwin Setup, or one of the packages, infected with a virus? > > Unlikely. Unless you can confirm it, please don't report it to the > mailing list. Anti-virus products have been known to detect false > positives when extracting compressed tar archives. If this causes > problems for you, consider disabling your anti-virus software when > running setup. Read the next entry for a fairly safe way to do this. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple