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Norton File Insight blocks DavMail

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2015-12-11
2015-12-20
  • Chester Gates

    Chester Gates - 2015-12-11

    Has anyone else had a problem with Norton marking DavMail as a virus and deleting it? It identifies the current version, davmail-4.7.0-2408, as including the threat WS.Reputation. I am assuming that this version is clean and that I can work around Norton to install it.

    Here is the report:

    Filename: davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe
    Threat name: WS.Reputation.1Full Path: c:\users\chester\downloads\davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe



    On computers as of 
    12/11/2015 at 10:38:03 AM

    Last Used 
    12/11/2015 at 10:40:09 AM

    Startup Item 
    No

    Launched 
    No

    Threat type: Insight Network Threat. There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe


    davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
    Locate

    Few Users
    Fewer than 100 users in the Norton Community have used this file.

    Mature
    This file was released 1 month ago.

    Medium
    This file risk is medium.


    http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/davmail/davmail/4.7.0/davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe
    Downloaded File davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe Threat name: WS.Reputation.1
    from sourceforge.net
    Source: External Media

    davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe


    File Actions

    File: c:\users\chester\downloads\ davmail-4.7.0-2408-setup.exe Removed


    File Thumbprint - SHA:
    51e086e35f9d42096e3084374b51fad38dff4b5598c0bde87557a48fdeb52cb8
    File Thumbprint - MD5:
    Not available

     
  • Mickael Guessant

    According to your log file Norton did not detect any virus, it just assumes that an exe used by less than 100 other Norton users is a potential threat.

    This means that any new release of any software distributed as an executable installer will be automatically deleted by Norton !

    Anyway you can use the -noinstall package instead.

     
  • Chester Gates

    Chester Gates - 2015-12-20

    I just had Norton ignore it. That seems to have worked.

     

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