Norton Deletes "pidgin.exe"

[Philippe VIALLE]

Hi all,

it seems indeed that this is a pure Norton issue, since pidgin.exe (last
version) is not being detected as a malware by 42 different AV engines (
www.virustotal.com).
You could report that to the Norton's support, and/or set it up as an
exclusion, as other folks said.

HTH.
Cheers,

--
Ph. VIALLE
Computers security consultant
www.ph-v.net

2011/6/27 Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk>

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:58:24 -0400
> Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
>
> > Daniel Curry spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > >   I don't know if one aware that Norton (symatic) antivirus deletes
> > > pidgin.exe 2.9 binary file. 2.8 and below was no problem.
> >
> > You need to report this to Norton, their antivirus is broken and
> > wrong.
>
> It should be possible to temporarily prevent Norton from scanning the
> directory where the Pidgin files reside.
>
> --
>
> Brian Morrison
>
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