Norton antivirus detects a threat in setup-x86_64.exe
Vijaya Subramanian via cygwin
cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 20 22:50:00 GMT 2017
Just tell Norton you trust the application-it will say too few users but also give you the option to say you trust the app.
On Wednesday, December 20, 2017, 2:44:33 PM MST, Sean Murphy <s.pat.murph@gmail.com> wrote:
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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