rsync/cwgwin hangs during transfers

[Max Arnold]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:52:28PM +0100, Alan C. Bonnici wrote:
> Rsync 3.0.7 and Cygwin 1.7.1 hangs at random instances. This does not happen
> always and does not happen at all locations. 

Do you have any antivirus/firewall software installed? I once had weird issues with cwRsync
on Windows and this took two days to find that security software intercepted some of the low
level win32 api hooks and this interacted badly with cygwin.