Infected Perl?

Infected Perl?

[David_Abrahams]

during a cygwin update, McAfee virus scan reports:
The file
C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz.tmp\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR.GZ is
infected and cannot be cleaned
The file C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR 
is
infected and cannot be cleaned
(and one other Perl-related file which didn't save the report for)

Is there any chance that this isn't just misinformation?

Thanks,
Dave

(p.s. Please respond to my home email address: abrahams@mediaone.net - for 
some reason you are blocking mail from my mailserver).

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Re: Infected Perl?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:41:16PM -0500, David_Abrahams@dragonsys.com wrote:
>(p.s. Please respond to my home email address: abrahams@mediaone.net - for 
>some reason you are blocking mail from my mailserver).

The reason for the blockage should be clear from the bounce message in the email
that you receive.  It should instruct you to go to a URL which explains things.

If you are subscribed to the mailing list you won't see this, so if you subscribe
abrahams@mediaone.net you will be able to post.

cgf

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Re: Infected Perl?

[Tim Prince]

McAfee always reports most .gz files, and many Windows program
installers, as viruses.  I found McAfee intolerable, and went into the
Add/Remove menu to reconfigure with all available options turned off.
You ought to be able to add .gz to a list of excluded file types, but
you may still find that McAfee slows your cygwin scripts by a factor of
5 or more.  I found scripts dying and my T20 going into standby, even
though I disabled file checking.  Even Office 2000 runs intolerably slow
or dies on W2K with McAfee in default configuration; our 700 Mhz laptops
act like 70 Mhz.  Not a satisfactory situation, as we do get real
viruses in Office files.
----- Original Message -----
From: <David_Abrahams@dragonsys.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:41 PM
Subject: Infected Perl?


> during a cygwin update, McAfee virus scan reports:
> The file
>
C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz.tmp\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR.GZ
is
> infected and cannot be cleaned
> The file
C:\temp\cygwin\contrib\perl\perl-5.6.1-1.tar.gz\PERL-5.6.1-1.TAR
> is
> infected and cannot be cleaned
> (and one other Perl-related file which didn't save the report for)
>
> Is there any chance that this isn't just misinformation?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> (p.s. Please respond to my home email address: abrahams@mediaone.net -
for
> some reason you are blocking mail from my mailserver).
>
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