Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), t

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Dan Harkless via Cygwin
On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), to have false positives on VirusT

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Oskar Skog via Cygwin
On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or something), to have false positives on VirusTotal for a handful of vendors.  I've never heard of Secur

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-07 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote: The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at > https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection > > Can this be resolved somehow? This is, of course, a false positive. The

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-07 Thread Dan Harkless via Cygwin
On 12/7/2022 8:20 AM, Sylwester Rutkowski via Cygwin wrote:Hi, The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection Can this be resolved somehow? No.  It's normal and common for software