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Re: Virus Found


At 23:49 10-9-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Yeah! Instead of the usual advertising lies about the downsides
>of the software you're just installing (e.g. "The new activation
>feature helps you to avoid copyright infringements"), Cygwin's
>setup would give some useful hints to the user:
>
>     "NEVER move your Cygwin DLL into your Windows directory!"
>
>     "Wanna use ssh? Check out /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README
>      and start ssh-user-config!"
>
>     "On NT, Cygwin uses the Windows password, on 9x, use `crypt'
>      to generate passwords to put into /etc/passwd."
>
>     etc...

Or how about a "tip of the day" feature in cygwin1.dll that shows one of 
these in a message box every time the dll is loaded?  :-)
Instructions on how to turn that off will NOT be given in the mailing list, 
but can only be found in the documentation and in the FAQ.

  - Michael

-- 
     I always wondered about the meaning of life.   So I looked it
     up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning
     of life.  It was not what I expected.                  - Dogbert 


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