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Re: Norton Warnings about cygwin.com
- From: Sean Murphy <s dot pat dot murph at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 08:05:43 -0500
- Subject: Re: Norton Warnings about cygwin.com
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- References: <527E1FFD dot 3050000 at fastmail dot fm>
Hello Emily,
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Emily Jackson <m5comp@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I am getting a "This page is suspect" warning from my Norton toolbar in
> Firefox when I go to any cygwin.com page; the full report says that
> http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe is a virus.
>
> Emily
>
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Norton is ultra paranoid. When I used to use Norton 360,
it would treat mintty's executable as a virus and "helpfully"
remove it for me. Something about their heuristics treats
anything that can execute actions that lands outside of
their known files as a virus.
Cheers,
Sean P Murphy
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