[tor-talk] Norton Antivirus and Tor Browser Bundle

[David H. Lipman]

From: <andrew at torproject.org>

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:18:34AM -0700, michaelwprx at yahoo.com.au wrote 1.2K bytes in 
> 33 lines about:
> : I extracted Tor Browser Bundle to my flash drive and clicked on Tor.exe
> : Norton Antivirus immediately flagged Tor.exe as a virus and deleted it.
>
> You want to run 'start tor browser.exe' to start it correctly.  And
> norton probably quarantined it somewhere.  You can remove it from
> quarantine.  It would be interesting to know which virus/malware norton
> thinks it has.
>

And exclude Tor.exe from further "On Demand" and "On Access" scans.



-- 
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
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