m417z
commented
3 months ago Thanks reporting. It’s likely a false positive detection. Unfortunately, struggling with false positives is a non-ending hassle.
This problem was discussed many times in the blog comments regarding my tools, for example:
https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker/comment-page-43#comment-11035
https://ramensoftware.com/contact/comment-page-4#comment-10292
See also Nir Sofer's blog post, Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers, a good write-up about the problem.
You can always help by reporting the detection as a false positive to the relevant antivirus companies. Meanwhile, you might want to add the Windhawk folder/executable to the antivirus exclusion list.
There's not much Windhawk can do about it, so I'm closing this issue.
Not sure it's a bug, but figured I'd report it....
FYI, Norton is reporting the following all of a sudden:
Filename: windhawk.exe Threat name: SONAR.AM.C!g6 Full Path: c:\program files\windhawk\windhawk.exe
On computers as of 4/27/2024 at 5:04:40 PM
Last Used 8/21/2024 at 9:31:16 PM
Startup Item Yes Launched Yes Behavioral Protection monitors for suspicious program activity on your computer.
Few Users Hundreds of users in the Norton Community have used this file.
New This file was released 23 days ago.
High This file risk is high.