From: Sean Murphy <s.pat.murph@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Norton antivirus detects a threat in setup-x86_64.exe
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANnN+=u9O+zvWyYhG1fH9C3UVRZijRoRWtigLOUiyunLUXdhoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPGnsNZkLFaZYDUU-Ji6vDL1_LwzZBQ6QkQQg_UTvwn3pc9b=Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Greg Taylor <greg.k.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/17 @ 12;20pm PST I downloaded the most recent version of
> setup-x86_64.exe which was flagged as a threat by Norton Antivirus.
It means Norton's heuristics jump the gun about Cygwin's setup. I
encountered this quite a few times in the past before I stopped using
Norton.
You have to go into Norton's settings and whitelist it as a trusted application.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-20 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-20 21:01 Greg Taylor
2017-12-20 21:56 ` Lee
2017-12-20 22:22 ` Sean Murphy [this message]
2017-12-20 22:50 ` Vijaya Subramanian via cygwin
2017-12-20 23:13 ` Greg Taylor
2017-12-21 0:09 ` Greg Taylor
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