* Norton Warnings about cygwin.com
@ 2013-11-09 11:43 Emily Jackson
2013-11-09 13:06 ` Sean Murphy
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From: Emily Jackson @ 2013-11-09 11:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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* Re: Norton Warnings about cygwin.com
2013-11-09 11:43 Norton Warnings about cygwin.com Emily Jackson
@ 2013-11-09 13:06 ` Sean Murphy
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From: Sean Murphy @ 2013-11-09 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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> 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
>
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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