From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12436 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2013 13:06:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12425 invoked by uid 89); 9 Nov 2013 13:06:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,EXECUTABLE_URI,FREEMAIL_FROM,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-vc0-f175.google.com Received: from Unknown (HELO mail-vc0-f175.google.com) (209.85.220.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:06:11 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id ht17so70515vcb.20 for ; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 05:06:03 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.58.232.228 with SMTP id tr4mr2637vec.34.1384002363149; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 05:06:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.123.2 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Nov 2013 05:05:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <527E1FFD.3050000@fastmail.fm> References: <527E1FFD.3050000@fastmail.fm> From: Sean Murphy Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Norton Warnings about cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-11/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 Hello Emily, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Emily Jackson 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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