RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-16 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
As a long-time Cygwin user, I can say that I would very much appreciate as much information as possible about "known good" and "known bad" antivirus, firewall, and anti-spyware tools or combinations thereof, including what Windows version was used, what special steps needed to be taken, etc. The p

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 October 2007 03:46, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> working != dodgy > > !dodgy == working ??? enum { dodgy, working, unknown, FILE_NOT_FOUND }; cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline t

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: working != dodgy !dodgy == working ??? !list of known dodgy apps != list of known good apps A list of known dodgy apps says nothing in particular about other apps not appearing on this l

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: > working != dodgy !dodgy == working ??? Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFCX0piWmPGlmQSMRCNRGAKDqP25YfoM95SWQc11

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:09:04PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Would we get into trouble if we had a "recommended virus checker" web >> page at the cygwin site? Or, maybe it would be a "Known working virus >

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: > Would we get into trouble if we had a "recommended virus checker" web > page at the cygwin site? Or, maybe it would be a "Known working virus > checkers". What happened to http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA ? Yaakov -

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 October 2007 22:42, Olivier Langlois wrote: >> Well, we have a list of known-to-be-dodgy ones. >> > Hi Dave, > > Can I ask you where I can find this list? I have looked on the cygwin > website before posting my question but I couldn't find any reference to > such a list. > > Thank you

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread René Berber
Reini Urban wrote: > but clamav has no "guard" feature which everybody needs. > the main purpose with clamav is mail filtering and we have no mailserver > package which integrates nice with clamav. (lack of milter) Wrong, Exim has direct support for using clamd. Also the is no need for a milter

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Tim Prince
Reini Urban wrote: tim prince schrieb: Reid Thompson wrote: I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html Surely, the inclusion of clam in the cygwin distribution has some kind of meaning. clamwin has no special incompatibilities either, that I can see.

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Reini Urban
tim prince schrieb: Reid Thompson wrote: I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html Surely, the inclusion of clam in the cygwin distribution has some kind of meaning. clamwin has no special incompatibilities either, that I can see. but clamav has no

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Langlois
> Well, we have a list of known-to-be-dodgy ones. > Hi Dave, Can I ask you where I can find this list? I have looked on the cygwin website before posting my question but I couldn't find any reference to such a list. Thank you, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 October 2007 19:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:56:12PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: >> I've yet to have any problems with >> >> http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html > > Ditto. I have used avira for years myself. > > Would we get into trouble if we had

RE: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15 October 2007 18:50, Olivier Langlois wrote: > Before doing my AVS switch, I just wanted to ask cygwin users and/or > maintainers which AVS they are recommending and that is known to have no > compatibility problems with Cygwin. AVG all the way for me. It's nice and lightweight and I ha

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:56:12PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html Ditto. I have used avira for years myself. Would we get into trouble if we had a "recommended virus checker" web page a

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:56:12PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: >I've yet to have any problems with > >http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html Ditto. I have used avira for years myself. Would we get into trouble if we had a "recommended virus checker" web page at the cygwin site? Or, may

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/15/07, Olivier Langlois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because > using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a bunch of child > processes are spawn (ie: find . -name '*.h' -exec grep -l pattern {} \;'.

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread tim prince
Reid Thompson wrote: I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html Surely, the inclusion of clam in the cygwin distribution has some kind of meaning. clamwin has no special incompatibilities either, that I can see. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Reid Thompson
I've yet to have any problems with http://www.avira.com/en/products/personal.html reid On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:50 -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because > using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a

Best AVS to use with cygwin

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Langlois
Hi, I am currently using Kaspersky AVS but I am looking for a replacement because using it with Cygwin brings my system unstable whenever a bunch of child processes are spawn (ie: find . -name '*.h' -exec grep -l pattern {} \;'. Someone has even put the blame on Cygwin on their forum: http://f