> > 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. --- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
