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Re: Norton antivirus detects a threat in setup-x86_64.exe
- From: Sean Murphy <s dot pat dot murph at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:44:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: Norton antivirus detects a threat in setup-x86_64.exe
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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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