Norton Warnings about cygwin.com

Sean Murphy s.pat.murph@gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 13:06:00 GMT 2013


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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