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From: Michael Wild <themiwi@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAALQ5rkWjLJTkJbGrPtz3dB1k_B1HSTPLfBDOR62Y2tG8PjQVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y37eudwo.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 18:19 Achim Gratz wrote:

> Michael Wild writes:
> > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing
> > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction
> > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd
> > expect others to have seen this issue too.
>
> It wouldn't be the first time antivirus heuristics target UPX routines
> instead of actual malware code.  You'll have to wait for the vendor or
> your organization to whitelist the relatively new setup.exe (unless
> you're allowed to do that yourself).
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
>

Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX
compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my custom
compiled versions.

Michael

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-21 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21  8:03 Michael Wild
2019-01-21 17:19 ` Achim Gratz
2019-01-21 18:25   ` Michael Wild [this message]
2019-01-21 19:55     ` Achim Gratz
2019-01-21 21:12       ` Michael Wild
2019-01-22 16:53         ` Brian Inglis
2019-01-22 17:28           ` Michael Wild
2019-01-22 18:34             ` Achim Gratz

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