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From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Fortinet AV reports virus in trust.exe
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:40:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220719124048.7eivxtrruafh5lru@lucy.dinwoodie.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB4PR09MB577631D6280A8C47E58B5A55C28F9@DB4PR09MB5776.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 08:40:48AM +0000, Tuomo Takkula via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Fortinet Antivirus reported W64/Encoder.834E!tr in my local cygwin installation. When I tried to rectify be reinstalling, Fortinet barked on the installation files as well. As this is a company box, I'm somewhat at the end of my tether  - cannot inspect or otherwise investigate the file. 
> That is I cannot check whether it's possibly a false positive or not.
> 
> What's the usual procedure for this?

https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.virus

In short: you'll need to take up the issue with Fortinet and/or your
employer's IT department.  It's very likely a false positive, and we're
not going to be able to help until or unless you can show otherwise.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-19 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-19  8:40 Tuomo Takkula
2022-07-19 12:40 ` Adam Dinwoodie [this message]

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