Norton Business Suite identifies minntty as malware

Tue Jul 14 09:56:00 GMT 2015

On 7/14/2015 5:21 AM, Brent wrote:
> On my work computer today, I ran cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe in order to get the latest and greatest code.
>> Soon afterwards, Norton Business Suite autoran, and claimed that the new mintty is malware (to be precise: WS.Malware.2).
>> This has never happened before: both Norton and cygwin (including mintty) have been on my computer for a long time.
>> I assume that mintty has not gotten infected with malware, and that this is probably a Norton bug, like what has been seen in the past:
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-11/msg00205.html
>>> That said, I thought that I would report it anyways.
>> Details:
> --Win 7 64 bit pro host
> --Norton Business Suite version 21.7.0.11
> --latest cygwin and mintty (version 2.0.3-0)
> --I have screenshots if anyone wants more details, but I cannot send them as attachments to this mailing list, right?
>
Hi Brenat,
please open a false positive report with Norton
Likely they will recognize the mistake and amend their database
Regards
Marco
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