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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 21:56:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Vijaya Subramanian via cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Norton antivirus detects a threat in setup-x86_64.exe
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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 DOT pat DOT murph AT gmail DOT com> wrote:  
 
 On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Greg Taylor <greg DOT k DOT taylor AT gmail DOT 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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