Mintty 0.9.7-1 for Cygwin is treated as a security threat by Norton in Windows 7

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Updating mintty to 0.9.7-1 (in Windows 7)
2.  Launching the terminal window

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is mintty.exe launching the terminal window.
When launching mintty, Norton prevents it from starting, then announces that 
mintty.exe
is a security risk, and removes mintty.exe.

What versions of mintty, Cygwin/MSYS, and Windows are you using?
As stated above, mintty is 0.9.7-1, and Windows is 7. Cygwin is 1.7.9-1.

Please provide any additional information below.
The upgrade to mintty 0.9.7-1 works with no issues in Windows XP and Windows 
Vista.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by s.pat.mu...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 1:00

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The executable comes out clean both with my local scanner and on 
http://virustotal.com, so I expect this is a false positive in Norton's 
heuristic scanning. This seems to happen to Cygwin programs fairly frequently, 
probably due to the low-level Windows hackery Cygwin has to do to implement 
POSIX semantics. Nothing I can do about that. Did Norton at least tell you what 
it thought mintty was doing wrong? Of course there's also the possibility that 
it got infected on your system.

As the wise Computius said: "Given the choice between Norton and a virus, take 
the virus."

Original comment by andy.koppe on 19 Apr 2011 at 5:13

• Changed state: Rejected

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Yeah, I figured it was a problem on Norton's end, as I scanned the executable 
at work and home and it came out clean.  Cycling back to the previous version 
of mintty doesn't seem to offend Norton, it operates as expected.  Norton just 
claimed that mintty was engaging in "suspicious activity", which was no help.  
I'll send Norton some info on this today and see if they can tell their system 
to back off.

Cheers.

Original comment by s.pat.mu...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 1:04