Norton Antivirus complaining

charlieo's profile image charlieo posted 11 years ago in General Permalink
Hi all,

I tried to install several different versions of HeidiSQL today and received a virus alert from Norton. Attached. Any ideas folks? Threat name is called "sonar.heuristic"

Charlie
jfalch's profile image jfalch posted 11 years ago Permalink
report to Norton as "most probably false positive", including download address that you got heidisql from.
charlieo's profile image charlieo posted 11 years ago Permalink
Submitted to Symantec per suggestion. Quick resolution!

Upon further analysis and investigation we have verified your submission and as such this detection will be removed from our products.

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