setup-x86.exe has virus and is blocked by Malware Detectors

[Adam Dinwoodie]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Wes Kaefer wrote:
> I agree, it probably does not have a virus; but it has a virus signature.

This is covered in the FAQ at http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.virus

> Is Cygwin Setup, or one of the packages, infected with a virus?
>
> Unlikely. Unless you can confirm it, please don't report it to the
> mailing list. Anti-virus products have been known to detect false
> positives when extracting compressed tar archives. If this causes
> problems for you, consider disabling your anti-virus software when
> running setup. Read the next entry for a fairly safe way to do this.

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