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F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Brad Morgan" <Brad dot Morgan at horizonint dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 19:00:50 +0100
- Subject: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.
- References: <LHEOLKFNPPJMODANHFNPOEJJCAAA.Brad.Morgan@horizonint.com>
On Thursday 9 May 02, Brad Morgan writes:
> I have a Cygwin (setup.exe version 2.194.2.15) full install on my Windows
> 2000 (SP2)
> desktop and on my (W2000) laptop computers. My anti-virus software is
> F-Secure Anti-virus 5.22.
>
> On both machines, if I run a "Scan all Hard Disks" I get a blue screen or a
> spontaneous reboot while scanning the C:\cygwin directory. Removing that
> directory
> eliminates the problem.
>
> Is there anything special about the cygwin directory structure that might
> cause this problem? Any specific file which might cause this problem?
I find it useful to get reports like this to the mailing list. Now
Cygwin users know to avoid F-Secure. However, the only people who can
help you are F-Secure. Report the problem to them so they can fix
their broken anti-virus software.
<mcnulty> I happen to be shopping around for anti-virus software
myself, which is why I'm grateful for this report. I had always found
my-etrust to be reliable and problem-free, but I'm tired of receiving
HTML-only email from them, something they only started doing a few
months ago. *sigh* </mcnulty>
Cheers,
David
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