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From: Sean Murphy <s.pat.murph@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Norton Warnings about cygwin.com
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANnN+=tXw+TEJiUFAJi=8UF4uRj4h1ykX4sSmp_5_rE-zS0iTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527E1FFD.3050000@fastmail.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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      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-09 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-09 11:43 Emily Jackson
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