Hello friends,
System: Lenovo Laptop w/ W7 Prof. 32bit
NAV 2012, installed and updated today.
What I encountered:
Trying to download and install Chromium webbrowser from:
hxxp://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/Win/99992/
(above link changed by me to prevent direct link to file)
Downloaded this file:
chrome-win32.zip 07-Sep-2011 13:52 30M
Unpacked it with 7zip to a new folder, the contents are:
Had this window open for a few secs to locate the executable, NAV Auto Protect slided in from the low right corner, stating it was analyzing the files or some such wordings. I let NAV do its work which took a little while. After that, the Auto Protect window contents changed to wordings like "Auto Protect has removed the risk".
In History of NAV I saw this:
clicking on More Details leads to this one:
In the screen shot right above I edited out my username with blancs.
Clicking Copy to Clipboard leads to this:
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Full Path: c:\users\xxxxxx\desktop\chrome-win32\ppgooglenaclpluginchrome.dll
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On computers as of Not Available
Last Used 7-9-2011 at 23:35:15
Startup Item No
Launched No
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Unknown
Number of users in the Norton Community that have used this file: Unknown
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Unknown
This file release is currently not known.
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High
This file risk is high.
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Threat Details
Threat type: Heuristic Virus. Detection of a threat based on malware heuristics.
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File Actions
File: c:\users\xxxxxx\desktop\chrome-win32\ppgooglenaclpluginchrome.dll
Removed
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File Thumbprint - SHA:
dcf31f0675c10477c4041ca021f97f584f209b0a85c81ee53406c702a81db17a
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File Thumbprint - MD5:
9d4896a7e1ef9e76d0f9f0f1e9b37ca4
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Above I x'ed out my username.
The download in question is the Chromium web browser which gets daily builds. I wanted to try it out in my search for another browser. Currently I'm using SeaMonkey and occasionally IE9 and wanted to have a look at Chromium as a possible replacement for Seamonkey. I think I may have hit something here, I don't know how to call it,I'll leave that to the experts.
I think the culprit here is Chromium getting daily builds and therefore the file contents change every day. BTW: the link above is the official link for Chromium.
I just thought I better bring this to your attention. I'm no fan of Google Chrome for privacy concerns, that's the reason I'm looking at Chromium, or I tried to look at it.