Hi--
On running Cygwin setup today, Norton Security complained about two files
tee.ext and date.exe
Norton used its SONAR (see below) to detect what it thought was a high
security risk. They claimed programs were behaving suspicious on my
computer. One thing that flagged these files was that there were less than
100 people that have used this application. Norton did not know the origin
of these files. I don't know what to say about all this, but I thought I'd
let you know what I found. I've been using Cygwin for many years, so I'm
hoping nothing really dangerous was involved this time. Otherwise, my
update seems to have gone through.
Thanks,
Carl Lund
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Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) provides real-time
protection against threats and proactively detects unknown security risks on
your computer. SONAR identifies emerging threats based on the behavior of
applications. SONAR identifies quicker than the traditional signature-based
threat detection techniques. SONAR detects and protects you against
malicious code even before virus definitions are available through
LiveUpdate.
SONAR monitors your computer for malicious activities through heuristic
detections.
SONAR automatically blocks and removes high-certainty threats. Norton
Security Suite notifies you when high-certainty threats are detected and
removed. SONAR provides you the greatest control when low-certainty threats
are detected.
The View Details link in the notification alert lets you view the summary of
the resolved high-certainty threats. You can view the details under Resolved
Security Risks category in the Security History window.
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