"net start" showed: Windows Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service Windows Defender Antivirus Service Windows Defender Firewall Windows Defender Security Centre Service may it be one of them messed up rsync? thanks -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple