Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

[Shirley Goldstein]

Thank you for the reassurance that these are probably not "real" bugs.
I have found with other packages that tar.gz files with unfortunate 
unix-style permissions trigger McAfee to report a bug that it can't name.
There is no readme file on http://www.cygwin.com although there are
at least 92 readmes in the installed download.

Shirley Goldstein
UCLA-Academic Technology Services
5308 Math Science, Box 951557
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1557
(310)206-9605
cusgsjn@ucla.edu
http://www.ats.ucla.edu

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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 14:21:43 -0400
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <lhall@rfk.com>
To: Shirley Goldstein <cusgsjn@alpha.oac.ucla.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

At 02:14 PM 7/3/2001, Shirley Goldstein wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This morning I downloaded from ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov the complete
>(default) cygwin download and installed it.  My virus checker
>(Network Associates McAfee VirusScan ww/SP v4.5.0.534
>Virus definitions: 4.0.4145  Scan Engine: 4.1.40)
>found 3 files it didn't like during the install, which it
>suggested be deleted as they were not clean-able:
>
>  7/3/01 10:03 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\latest\gdb\gdb-20010428-1.tar.gz\GDB-20010428-1.TAR     
>
>  7/3/01 10:04 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\ghostscript\ghostscript-5.50-2.tar.gz\GHOSTSCRIPT-5.50-2.TAR    
>
>  7/3/01 10:11 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\python\python-2.1-1.tar.gz\PYTHON-2.1-1.TAR
>
>
>Shirley Goldstein

See:

The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

[Tehmul Ghyara]

>This morning I downloaded from ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov the complete
>(default) cygwin download and installed it.  My virus checker
>(Network Associates McAfee VirusScan ww/SP v4.5.0.534
>Virus definitions: 4.0.4145  Scan Engine: 4.1.40)
>found 3 files it didn't like during the install, which it
>suggested be deleted as they were not clean-able:
>
> 7/3/01	10:03 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM
> C:\tmp\latest\gdb\gdb-20010428-1.tar.gz\GDB-20010428-1.TAR
>
> 7/3/01	10:04 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM
>
>C:\tmp\contrib\ghostscript\ghostscript-5.50-2.tar.gz\GHOSTSCRIPT-5.50-2.TAR
>
> 7/3/01	10:11 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM
> C:\tmp\contrib\python\python-2.1-1.tar.gz\PYTHON-2.1-1.TAR

I've downloaded cygwin from the nasa.gov site too, and have McAfee Netshield 4.5, scan engine 4.1.40, and Virus definitions 4.0.4145.  Manually running Viruscan did not show any problems at all.  However, the background scan however keeps timing out - says the scan was aborted because it took too long to complete.  It's probably a glitch with McAfee.

Tehmul Ghyara
tehmulg@niit.com



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Re: fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 02:14 PM 7/3/2001, Shirley Goldstein wrote:
>Hello,
>
>This morning I downloaded from ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov the complete
>(default) cygwin download and installed it.  My virus checker
>(Network Associates McAfee VirusScan ww/SP v4.5.0.534
>Virus definitions: 4.0.4145  Scan Engine: 4.1.40)
>found 3 files it didn't like during the install, which it
>suggested be deleted as they were not clean-able:
>
>  7/3/01 10:03 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\latest\gdb\gdb-20010428-1.tar.gz\GDB-20010428-1.TAR     
>
>  7/3/01 10:04 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\ghostscript\ghostscript-5.50-2.tar.gz\GHOSTSCRIPT-5.50-2.TAR    
>
>  7/3/01 10:11 AM        Deleted SYSTEM  
>  C:\tmp\contrib\python\python-2.1-1.tar.gz\PYTHON-2.1-1.TAR
>
>
>Shirley Goldstein

See:

The README says I should turn off anti-virus software. Isn't that dangerous?
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC10


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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fyi: Virus found in gdb, ghostscript and python

[Shirley Goldstein]

Hello,

This morning I downloaded from ftp://ftp.nas.nasa.gov the complete
(default) cygwin download and installed it.  My virus checker
(Network Associates McAfee VirusScan ww/SP v4.5.0.534
Virus definitions: 4.0.4145  Scan Engine: 4.1.40)
found 3 files it didn't like during the install, which it
suggested be deleted as they were not clean-able:

 7/3/01	10:03 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM	
 C:\tmp\latest\gdb\gdb-20010428-1.tar.gz\GDB-20010428-1.TAR	

 7/3/01	10:04 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM	
 C:\tmp\contrib\ghostscript\ghostscript-5.50-2.tar.gz\GHOSTSCRIPT-5.50-2.TAR	

 7/3/01	10:11 AM	Deleted	SYSTEM	
 C:\tmp\contrib\python\python-2.1-1.tar.gz\PYTHON-2.1-1.TAR


Shirley Goldstein
UCLA-Academic Technology Services
5308 Math Science, Box 951557
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1557
(310)206-9605
cusgsjn@ucla.edu
http://www.ats.ucla.edu


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