X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=JAQGgnPah81w1wBw ZKfkeSFr3qHJ7JNfeq2PuxOD954u4ThgyupW+WHNcai5vDir3qVWJ6QvoOlFRHps XYZoaV7OYj7lIDW7aY/WDAq/3Kwaq9KpySbGqZD20IzJaJ/ZPWXAxEBsrAfEixTi iM3bbdSek2wGeVyJLro8DOZ8V3I= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=YFgqT22u5vnOP53tFH7mju Crd58=; b=Gu5+RQEKfx23s8bSVYE2LVURXufCieJzUcOPYuuyyixCSoKJOlsgg8 bgvuq9eBTn39BEYGujLiv1A1wrRvKu+4nfgWVL/FN1XxySgS/ErJWjPbFSbDC2Rl /oLWpIDcNNzGSap53rHk/zOcSGTJmrHGxjW0rWvJvny1V84mwHUxM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ie0-f180.google.com X-Received: by 10.50.50.130 with SMTP id c2mr2015393igo.19.1436867772151; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Norton Business Suite identifies minntty as malware To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1912237562 DOT 1654741 DOT 1436844110822 DOT JavaMail DOT yahoo AT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <55A4DCB5.7040401@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:56:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1912237562.1654741.1436844110822.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 7/14/2015 5:21 AM, Brent wrote: > On my work computer today, I ran cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe in order to get the latest and greatest code. > > Soon afterwards, Norton Business Suite autoran, and claimed that the new mintty is malware (to be precise: WS.Malware.2). > > This has never happened before: both Norton and cygwin (including mintty) have been on my computer for a long time. > > I assume that mintty has not gotten infected with malware, and that this is probably a Norton bug, like what has been seen in the past: > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda > > https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-11/msg00205.html > > > That said, I thought that I would report it anyways. > > Details: > --Win 7 64 bit pro host > --Norton Business Suite version 21.7.0.11 > --latest cygwin and mintty (version 2.0.3-0) > --I have screenshots if anyone wants more details, but I cannot send them as attachments to this mailing list, right? > Hi Brenat, please open a false positive report with Norton Likely they will recognize the mistake and amend their database Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple