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Re: CSAgent warning with setup.exe


Will Parsons wrote:
I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work.  The IT
department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now
when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "tried to make
system call from self-modifying code" and that this may mean the program
has been subverted by a buffer overflow attack.

Is this true and if so is it something I should worry about?

setup.exe does contain some legitimate self-modifying code (in autoload.c if anyone is interested).


So, it's fairly likely this is a false alarm.

Max.


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