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From:	"Carl Lund" <c DOT lund1 AT comcast DOT net>
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Subject:	FYI-- Symantec Security Warnings with setup.exe
Date:	Sat, 1 Jan 2011 13:12:01 -0700
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Hi--

On running Cygwin setup today, Norton Security complained about two files

tee.ext and date.exe

Norton used its SONAR (see below) to detect what it thought was a high 
security risk.  They claimed programs were behaving suspicious on my 
computer. One thing that flagged these files was that there were less than 
100 people that have used this application. Norton did not know the origin 
of these files. I don't know what to say about all this, but I thought I'd 
let you know what I found.  I've been using Cygwin for many years, so I'm 
hoping nothing really dangerous was involved this time.  Otherwise, my 
update seems to have gone through.

Thanks,

Carl Lund

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Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) provides real-time 
protection against threats and proactively detects unknown security risks on 
your computer. SONAR identifies emerging threats based on the behavior of 
applications. SONAR identifies quicker than the traditional signature-based 
threat detection techniques. SONAR detects and protects you against 
malicious code even before virus definitions are available through 
LiveUpdate.

SONAR monitors your computer for malicious activities through heuristic 
detections.

SONAR automatically blocks and removes high-certainty threats. Norton 
Security Suite notifies you when high-certainty threats are detected and 
removed. SONAR provides you the greatest control when low-certainty threats 
are detected.

The View Details link in the notification alert lets you view the summary of 
the resolved high-certainty threats. You can view the details under Resolved 
Security Risks category in the Security History window.



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