#33 Norton Antivirus complains about fkernel.exe in 6.15.04

[Walt Farrell]

I just tried to install w32f61504.exe from SourceForge and my Norton Antivirus aborted the install and quarantined fkernel.exe. It flags it as "Suspicious.Cloud.9.B" (further information at http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-091708-4759-99&vid=42625&product=Norton%20360%20Premier&version=22.5.5.15&plang=sym:EN&layouttype=ESD&buildname=Retail&heartbeatID=bc11a7d7-c4a9-11de-94b4-002618c9e73e&env=prod&vendorid=1000&plid=69&plgid=4&skup=21223124&skum=21349210&skuf=21222958&endpointid=bc11a7d7-c4a9-11de-94b4-002618c9e73e&partnerid=1000&lic_type=16&lic_attr=17059858&psn=XKPTHFCRRGYV&puid=5039&osvers=10.0&oslocale=iso:USA&oslang=iso:ENG&os=windows )

Which basically says that heuristic analysis has shown that it's a high risk of being malware. Part of that may be that it's so new, and few Norton users have downloaded it (though, of course, very few will if the product keeps quarantining it :)

The MD5 hash matches what SF shows, so the download isn't corrupted.

Just thought you might be interested in knowing...

[Walt Farrell]

By the way, I've reported it to Symantec as a suspected false positive. I don't know whether they'll respond, or how long it might take.

[John A. Peters]

It's been an ongoing problem with antivirus programs and we all need to report it so they'll realize Forth is something good

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On Mar 3, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Walt Farrell wf49670@users.sf.net wrote:

By the way, I've reported it to Symantec as a suspected false positive. I don't know whether they'll respond, or how long it might take.

[bugs:#33] Norton Antivirus complains about fkernel.exe in 6.15.04

Status: open
Group: v6.11.xx
Created: Thu Mar 03, 2016 08:25 PM UTC by Walt Farrell
Last Updated: Thu Mar 03, 2016 08:25 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

I just tried to install w32f61504.exe from SourceForge and my Norton Antivirus aborted the install and quarantined fkernel.exe. It flags it as "Suspicious.Cloud.9.B" (further information at http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2013-091708-4759-99&vid=42625&product=Norton%20360%20Premier&version=22.5.5.15&plang=sym:EN&layouttype=ESD&buildname=Retail&heartbeatID=bc11a7d7-c4a9-11de-94b4-002618c9e73e&env=prod&vendorid=1000&plid=69&plgid=4&skup=21223124&skum=21349210&skuf=21222958&endpointid=bc11a7d7-c4a9-11de-94b4-002618c9e73e&partnerid=1000&lic_type=16&lic_attr=17059858&psn=XKPTHFCRRGYV&puid=5039&osvers=10.0&oslocale=iso:USA&oslang=iso:ENG&os=windows )

Which basically says that heuristic analysis has shown that it's a high risk of being malware. Part of that may be that it's so new, and few Norton users have downloaded it (though, of course, very few will if the product keeps quarantining it :)

The MD5 hash matches what SF shows, so the download isn't corrupted.

Just thought you might be interested in knowing...

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