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Norton is a brand owned by Symantec and first developed by Peter Norton. It is most commonly known for its AntiVirus and Internet Security software.

Norton is a brand owned by Symantec and first developed by Peter Norton. It is most commonly known for its AntiVirus and Internet Security software.

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Firewall blocking WSL 2

My firewall (Norton) is blocking WSL 2 from using the internet. I cannot ping even google. When I turn the firewall off, everything works, and when I turn it back on again, it no longer works. What rules do I have to set on the firewall to allow WSL…
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Norton File Insight marking installer as a threat

Norton Antivrus is marking an installer of mine, foobar_revision_1922.exe improperly as a threat because it has Very Few Users ( less than 5 in the Norton Community, WS.Reputation.1 ) and places the file in quarantine. Has anyone encountered this…
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android InstantRun - Norton Security finds Trojan

A week ago Norton Security started to find Trojan horse (Trojan.Gen.NPE.2) in file R.class located: app\build\intermediates\transforms\instantrun\debug\folders\1\5\main\android\support\v4\…
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How to defer loading of a Norton Secure Site Seal?

I am displaying a Norton Secure Site Seal in a website and I would like to improve the page speed deferring the loading of the seal script. All the tries I've done failed and I found only this page where this is mentioned (link). Has anyone ever…
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How to setup norton seal for angularjs site?

I am trying to setup norton seal for my angularjs site. every-time when norton script loads its says a warning in my console like, "Failed to execute 'write' on 'Document': It isn't possible to write into a document from an asynchronously-loaded…
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Visual Studio says Norton is slowing build performance despite whitelisting directories

In Visual Studio 3.5.3, I get the following error: "Your anti-virus program might be impacting your build performance. Android Studio checked the following directories:..." Despite adding the directories to Norton 22.19.9.63's "Items to Exclude…
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Is it possible to get the Norton AntiVirus status on PC using Java?

Is it possible to get the Norton AntiVirus status on PC using Java? For example last updated date, current status like active or inactive, upcoming update date and etc. Is it possible through java?
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C++ program triggers Norton SONAR.Heuristic.170

I'm developing a C++ program in Visual C++ 2010 Express. Everytime I rebuild, and run, I get a warining Norton on thread SONAR.Heuristic.170. It reports network activity from source file link.exe on my file created myprog.exe My program does not do…
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"electron-forge" is not recognized as an internal or external command

I was working lately with electron-forge and I had no problem, after I installed Norton I cannot use electron-forge anymore (with the Windows CMD) and I get the message: "electron-forge" is not recognized as an internal or external command. Can…
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Preventing programs from being blocked by Norton

I wrote a C# text editor and gave it to a user recently. Upon running the software, Norton AV immediately deleted it. The error report he sent me indicated that it was doing "suspicious operations". I was simply writing to a text file. :o Does…
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Can't open a downloaded file from Chrome/Firefox Browser

We are using a Clickonce application with a registered file association. We are downloading a *.foo file and it should open the ClickOnce program when clicking the file. It will open the program correctly when going to the folder in Windows and…
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Visual Studio loading unrelated DLLs into my project when debugging

I have Norton 360 installed on my system. I run this WTL project(VS2012) in debug mode, and in the output window I see the following line 'CheckWTL.exe' (Win32): Loaded…
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When do files get stored in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA when executing an .exe?

My team is creating a Desktop application using Electron. During testing Norton flagged and blocked an action for accessing a file located in C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA when running the application for the first…
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CMake Configuration Error: various errors involving files failing to open when trying to configure

I am a student in University. I currently do not have access to the wonderful Ubuntu machines my University normally provides for CS students. As such, I've had to set up a C/C++ coding environment on my Windows 10 laptop. After much trial and…
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PHP session cookies blocked by end user security software

I have an issue with PHP session cookies which is affecting only users of Internet Explorer who are using security software including McAffee, AVG and Norton. Some (but apparently not all) users of IE and these security packages are unable to login…
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