From: Robert Pendell <shinji@elite-systems.org>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Virus in bin/bitmap.exe ?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a13b5a591002052353g422a3eb9y14de67332abbb834@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25b6e51f1002052224t13f31ce3n16b899fea5bde84c@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Nicolas Gorse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am installing the latest version of cygwin, downloaded from
> http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/cygwin and during the installation,
> my anti-virus just reported the following problem:
>
> Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan
> Event: Risk Found!
> Security risk detected: Suspicious.MH690
> File: C:\cygwin\bin\bitmap.exe
> Location: C:\cygwin\bin
>
> Scan type: Auto-Protect Scan
> Event: Risk Found!
> Security risk detected: Suspicious.MH690
> File: C:\cygwin\bin\metaflac.exe
> Location: C:\cygwin\bin
>
> Is this expected?!?
>
> Regards,
>
> N.
>
Norton\Symantec has a poor behavior detection method. Not only that
but they refused my offer to submit binaries for their analysis so
they could improve it. Even their newest Sonar 2 gives a false
detection on cygwin compiled binaries.
Robert Pendell
shinji@elite-systems.org
CAcert Assurer
"A perfect world is one of chaos."
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