Demo file treated as a threat by Norton AV
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:18 am
Hello,
FYI. The 1.32 demo file is classified by Norton as 'dangerous'and is therefore removed from my system immediately upon download. I assume I will be able to proceed by closing down Norton Antivirus during the download and installation, but it does not give me (and most likely also other potential customers) a good feeling...
Norton classifies the file as a WS.repution.1 file (see description below)
Cheers,
Moos
FYI. The 1.32 demo file is classified by Norton as 'dangerous'and is therefore removed from my system immediately upon download. I assume I will be able to proceed by closing down Norton Antivirus during the download and installation, but it does not give me (and most likely also other potential customers) a good feeling...
Norton classifies the file as a WS.repution.1 file (see description below)
Behavior
WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.
The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques.
Cheers,
Moos