most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

[marco atzeri]

On 2/27/2012 4:01 PM, George Barrick wrote:
> Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken.
>
>                               2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT
>
>> Hi George,
>> probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that
>> your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general.
>> Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain
>>
>> does "D:\Program Files\AlwilSoftware\Avast\snxhk.dll" exist ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
>
> Hi Marco,
>
>       Yes. The file exists, but it is in the sub-directory
> Avast5 of the AlwilSoftware directory.  Apparently their
> installer does not make everything perfect when it upgrades
> from a previous version.
>
>        Should I then rip out both cygwin and the antivirus,
> then run a re-install of antivirus first, then the cygwin?
> Forgive me, install and re-install pretty much summarizes
> my suite of computing skills.  When all that I have is a
> hammer, everything looks to me like a "hammer" kind of
> job.
>
> George                          gbarrick_at_walsh_dot_edu
>

I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem


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