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Arend Rensink wrote:
On 25-9-2014 12:18, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: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.)
According to VirusTotal, some "Bkav" scanner reports a false positive for both current setup.exe versions:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/ea2a2322ccce15af2b68b36f0543f263529422baf41480d4f96b320a55289d71/analysis/1411478277/ https://www.virustotal.com/file/7eb582a3bc289fad3fdc7ebc3a921f8d6dc2759b7f42d905663d0577e9e683e1/analysis/1411563114/ Christian -- 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
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