Re: [Monotone-devel] NAV report

[Howard Spindel]

At 02:07 PM 2/2/2006, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> At 2006-02-02T12:06:22-0800, Howard Spindel wrote:
> > Norton Antivirus reports that the file:
> > monotone-0.25-setup.exe
> >
> > has a virus called WinFixer.
> >
> > As the file has been on my computer for several days and been scanned
> > several times, this must be the result of virus definition updates
> > downloaded yesterday.
> >
> > I presume it's a false positive, but thought you might want to be alerted.
>
> Thanks for the report.  It seems that the setup executables produced by Inno
> Setup tend to be falsely accused of containing some virus or other on a
> regular basis.
>
> I wonder if the NSIS installer fares any better...
>
> Cheers,
> -mjg
> --
> Matthew Gregan                     |/

I discovered after my initial post that every monotone installer on 
my system (I have about five back versions hanging around) triggered 
Norton Antivirus, so clearly it's a false positive.  I've reported it 
to Symantec - hopefully they'll fix it.

Howard