Norton Antivirus 2010 false detects cygpath.exe, mkpasswd.exe, mkgroup.exe

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 18:46:00 GMT 2009


2009/9/4 Robert Pendell:
> During basic installation cygpath, mkpasswd, and mkgroup were all
> detected by SONAR (part of NAV 2010) that it the files emitted
> suspicious activiry and would be removed.  The files have not been
> removed (yet) but I will be alerting Norton to this.  This does block
> the program though and prevents their use to complete the install.
> Thought to let you guys know about it.  This may also affect NAV 2009
> or similiar applications (Norton Internet Security, Norton 360).

"If I had to choose between Norton and a virus, I'd take the virus."
Someone O. Other

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