Hello Emily, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Emily Jackson <m5c...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > I am getting a "This page is suspect" warning from my Norton toolbar in > Firefox when I go to any cygwin.com page; the full report says that > http://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe is a virus. > > Emily > > -- > 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 >
Norton is ultra paranoid. When I used to use Norton 360, it would treat mintty's executable as a virus and "helpfully" remove it for me. Something about their heuristics treats anything that can execute actions that lands outside of their known files as a virus. Cheers, Sean P Murphy -- 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
