Here is a link to NSIS's page on false positives.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives
There are some links to online virus scanners. You can try scanning the
file with one or more of them.
Here is a link to the report of doing a scan from one of them. If you look
at the report, it reports 2 out of 23 scanners report malware. However the
names of the malware are different, and different from what Norton reported.
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/92c7a03d4c30e1c2f398d4f90a30968d2bb935ef
Basically, I just think the anti-virus software is not very reliable.
--
Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Oliver Sims <
> oliver.s...@simsassociates.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Just downloaded oorexx-4.2.0.windows.x86_32.exe to my XP machine. At
>> end of download, Norton anti-virus popped up and said it was "unsafe" and
>> removed the downloaded file!!!
>>
>
>
> This is a false positive by Norton. As you can see Norton is using a
> heuristic to detect the virus. Heuristic checks are notorious for
> producing false positives.
>
> I submitted the problem to Norton and they admitted it was a false
> positive and said it would be corrected. But, if they did anything, it
> seems if is related to the file name only.
>
> You can turn Norton off and download the file, The go to:
>
> https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/
>
> and submit the download as a false positive. I believe Norton will come
> back and agree it is a false positive.
>
> Other than that I don't know what to do about it.
>
> I believe it is actually coming from NSIS. The other thing you can do is
> turn Norton off, run the installation, then turn Norton back on and have it
> scan the installation directory. I believe it will report the files are
> okay.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
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