> -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Brady > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:15 > To: Dave Korn > > Thanks, > All file look good, I submitted to a couple of online file > scanner sites and they confirmed no problem. This appears to > be a false positive with CA Antivirus... > > BTW: After posting this message to the board I found 6 > additional exe files that also caused false positives. I > posted these new files in a message to the board also, > however they all checked out good also..
BTW, it would be nice if you could include the md5sum/version/etc of the files which had false positives in your reply so others may search/verify it. > > Ed > > > Dave Korn wrote: > > Ed Brady wrote: > > > >> I just ran a virus scan, and got a hit for sed.exe. > >> Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA. Anyone else seen anything similar to this? > >> > > > > Seen a few false positives with AVG in my personal > experience. Most > > AVs run into the odd one now and again. Some of them seem > to have a > > fondness for Cygwin, probably because it's not part of any of their > > standard testing environments, so they wouldn't notice > false positives > > in it before releasing a new .dat file. > > > > > >> I run scans frequently and have never had this show up > before I want > >> to believe that this is a false positive, but want to be sure... > >> > > > > Here's md5sums of my versions: > > > > 1.5: > > ~ $ cygcheck -c sed > > Cygwin Package Information > > Package Version Status > > sed 4.1.5-2 OK > > ~ $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe > > dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe > > > > 1.7: > > $ cygcheck -c sed > > Cygwin Package Information > > Package Version Status > > sed 4.1.5-2 OK > > > > $ md5sum /bin/sed.exe > > dd5f2d46b572b534d22f65a43916351c */bin/sed.exe > > > > If yours match (assuming same versions of course), you're clean. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. -- 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
