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Re: Possible virus


McAfee does false positives on many .gz files as well as with many more
traditional Windows  program installer files; it's of no use in this
situation. Of course it can't clean it. Turn it off.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reginald Charney" <Reginald.Charney@openwave.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Possible virus


> FYI,
>
> In downloading cygwin today, by virus detection software (McAfee
VirusScan
> w/SP v4.5.0.534) claimed that the file:
>
>
> C:\My Download
>
Files\contrib\postgresql\postgresql-7.1RC2-1.src.tar.gz\postgresql-7.1RC
2-1.
> src.tar
>
>
> was infected with a virus that it could not clean or fix.
>
> Reg. Charney
> 650-817-1654
>
>
>
>
>
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