Norton Anti Virus ??? (obvioulsy doesnt work)

[illskills]

I just finished coding an application using vb.net express 2008

all the people i've sent this that are using avast, avg etc have had no problems

yet norton thinks my file is a virus lol

its 100% not ... it only contains some basic math calculations

why would norton do this ?

anyone else had any similar problems

[kleinma]

Your exe could be named something that matches a known virus in nortons database, or perhaps some part of the programs code looks similar to a virus like pattern. Many AV products these days have heuristic scanning which means instead of looking for an exact match to a given virus (which they still also do) they look for virus like behavior in the code, and can turn up false positives from time to time.

You should be able to find out what virus norton is flagging your app as being, and then do some research on that given virus type to see if you can draw any parallel between them. You may just need to contact symantec directly.

[illskills]

i think i understand why ...

the code would look very similar to a generic keygenerator.

how frustrating ... i think the simple answer is ...

bc its not packaged as and msi / setup.exe its just the raw executable

ill try packaging the file n see if i still have the same results.

[Pc_Not_Mac]

Norton is a very poor anti-virus it uses a lot of system resources, has a poor identification rate for finding viruses.
I think of Norton as being a virus all was slowing your computer down.

Norton + Vista = PC HOG