Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/09/08/05:30:58
John Sellers wrote on 08 September 2008 06:14:
> When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP machine, my firewall informs me of
> regedit activity, searching, and text manipulation. I have not located
> the source of this activity.
>
> The install is a clean one without any significant Internet activity
> that might lead to any third-party detection or downloads to my machine.
>
> Is this behavior expected or have I picked up something nasty from setup?
Your firewall is most likely being hypersensitive. It must have some kind
of antispy/malware "behaviour-blocking" feature, that regards all those things
as suspicious, but they're all pretty normal activities as far as I can infer
from the brief descriptions you've reported here. What is your firewall?
Does it give any more detail, like what process is involved? (None of those
appear to be network activities to me, but does it mention any IP addresses
and ports?)
To be precise: When you fire up a bash shell under Cygwin, particularly for
the first time, it is entirely part of the normal course of events for that
process to 1) access and alter keys in the registry, 2) search through a bunch
of files and dirs, 3) manipulate text. (That's a *really* vague thing for it
to warn about, how much software /doesn't/ do that in one way or another?)
cheers,
DaveK
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