From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tim Prince" To: , Subject: Re: Infected Perl? Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:20:00 -0000 Message-id: <005901c09973$5ab4eff0$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg01031.html 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: To: 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). > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple