From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33118 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2016 16:20:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 33106 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jan 2016 16:20:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=vault, Zac, Young, Defender X-HELO: stargate.mehconsulting.com Received: from stargate.mehconsulting.com (HELO stargate.mehconsulting.com) (65.78.188.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:20:24 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (stargate.mehconsulting.com [65.78.188.61] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by stargate.mehconsulting.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u0BGKLjj031811 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:20:22 -0800 Message-ID: <5693D607.5020000@winfirst.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:44:00 -0000 From: Mark Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cannot Run Executable Files References: <873FBA50-55FD-4DCF-93A1-23AE9C207122@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <873FBA50-55FD-4DCF-93A1-23AE9C207122@etr-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00116.txt.bz2 On 1/11/2016 7:41 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 9, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Zac G. Al Wakeel wrote: >> >>> For the archives, would you say which software was causing the problem? >> >> I was using Avast, free software. > > Then I recommend uninstalling it and switching to Windows Defender. I predict that your problems will not return. > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > I use AVG which also has a free version (http://free.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download). Once in a while, it tries to "vault" a cygwin executable. I just tell it to put it back and leave it alone. There's probably a way to tell it to just ignore the whole cygwin directory, but the problem has not come up enough to warrant looking up how to do this. Good luck. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple