Greetings, Arend Rensink! >> I would be looking very hard at whatever virus protection you have. >> The fact that the setup-*.exe is being removed makes me think some >> third party program is killing the installer and deleting the >> executable; that's just not something the installer will do.
> Yes, in te meanwhile I looked a bit further and found out that that's > precisely what happens. The corresponding message is: >> 25-9-2014 10:54:05 Quarantined legal software that can be used by >> criminals to damage your computer or personal data >> PDM.Worm.P2P.generic C:\CYGWIN\SETUP-X86.EXE > (I don't suppose there is a worm, but you might be interested in knowing > about this false positive.) Kaspersky "Antivirus" is notoriously known for protecting the users from their computers. Also, ".Generic" is a sign that the detection was based on heuristics. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 25.09.2014, <17:11> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
