CakeHole
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WS.Reputation.1 identification by Norton i think you will find occurs mainly on small sized files which are .exe's and files that are uncommon or rare. It in no way confirms it is a virus or other nasty.
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/clarification-wsreputation1-detection
WS.Reputation.1 is basically a user contribution system ".....WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users"
Any file that is not common will be identified by it. It will even flag some .doc files you attempt to download if they do not have the .doc extension.
Turn Off Download Insight in the main Norton GUI window. And Scan the file properly with Norton. Or better yet ditch the resource hungry Norton Bloat all together.
That upload of mine is clean, My PC runs Malware bytes in the background along with Super Anti-Spyware, ESET Smart Security is my AV and firewall choice and in addition i run host files from Spybot and Spy Blaster. If it got passed all that and Virus Total plus this sites security when you upload a file id be more than a bit surprised.
I can guess what is causing dumb dumb Norton to have a panic attack and that is because one of the readme files in the rar file is not in English. TO any windows system without the appropriate language pack and Norton itself the inside of the readme looks like jumbled nonsense and suspicious, which clearly it isn't.
WS.Reputation.1 identification by Norton i think you will find occurs mainly on small sized files which are .exe's and files that are uncommon or rare. It in no way confirms it is a virus or other nasty.
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/clarification-wsreputation1-detection
WS.Reputation.1 is basically a user contribution system ".....WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users"
Any file that is not common will be identified by it. It will even flag some .doc files you attempt to download if they do not have the .doc extension.
Turn Off Download Insight in the main Norton GUI window. And Scan the file properly with Norton. Or better yet ditch the resource hungry Norton Bloat all together.
That upload of mine is clean, My PC runs Malware bytes in the background along with Super Anti-Spyware, ESET Smart Security is my AV and firewall choice and in addition i run host files from Spybot and Spy Blaster. If it got passed all that and Virus Total plus this sites security when you upload a file id be more than a bit surprised.
I can guess what is causing dumb dumb Norton to have a panic attack and that is because one of the readme files in the rar file is not in English. TO any windows system without the appropriate language pack and Norton itself the inside of the readme looks like jumbled nonsense and suspicious, which clearly it isn't.
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