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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: AVG detects malware in python2&3 setuptools gui.exe and gui-32.exe
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <482887672.20140810222527@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1FpuPOq7NqBPHG8Ma0YRKeb0H3ikXa7_xSr-2ZDcrbeOzqUg@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Doug Henderson!

> Hi cygwin python maintainers and users,

> AVG Free detects malware in the gui.exe and gui-32.exe files which
> are part of the cygwin 64-bit versions of the python2 and python3
> setuptools package.

The report indicate the "corrupted executable file". That's not a "virus"
detection per se.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 10.08.2014, <22:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-10 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-10 15:40 Doug Henderson
2014-08-10 16:08 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-08-10 20:04   ` Doug Henderson
2014-08-10 18:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-10-17 13:47 Andrew Hood

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