How to Disable IDP.Generic Detection

Norton 360 for Windows
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Issue abstract: How to Disable IDP.Generic Detection

Detailed description:

I am a software developer using Norton 360. During my daily development workflow, my locally built binaries (executables / temporary build artifacts) are frequently flagged as IDP.Generic by Norton.

Since I compile and debug my own code on this machine very frequently, these files are all locally built from source I control. Having to manually add an exclusion for each new file or each new build folder is quite time‑consuming. Every time I change the build output path or create a new project, I need to reconfigure exclusions, which significantly affects my development efficiency.

My questions and requests are:

  1. Is it possible to disable detection for “IDP.Generic” specifically?

    • I understand this may not be recommended from a security perspective, but in a controlled development environment, I would like to avoid IDP.Generic behavioral detections on my device.

  2. If it is not possible to turn off IDP.Generic directly:

    • Could you provide a more developer‑friendly configuration, for example:

      • Automatically trust files generated by specific processes (such as known compilers/IDEs);

      • Or provide a Developer Mode which relaxes alerts for locally built, unsigned binaries.

  3. If none of the above is currently supported, could this be logged as a feature request for developer‑oriented users for a future product update?

Thank you very much, and I look forward to your reply. I hope Norton can further optimize the experience for development environments and local build scenarios.

Product & version number: 25.12.10212.0

OS details:Windows 11 25H2

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@andya1lan Have you set Norton to “exclude” the entire directory where your work is being done, AND saved? That is the most available option vice disabling real time protections.

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SA

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Hi SA,

Thanks for your advice. I have written in my original post that there are so many folders I don’t want to add them for each time. No need to say during the building process like Golang, some artifacts are created in temp folder which would be ricky so whitelist all of them.

Since all the detections are identified as “IDP.Generic” , I am wondering if there is a way to only disable or whitelist it specifically.

BR,

Andy

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There aren’t ways to “whitelist” apps or things developers use. The suggestion posted before is the most common, although, each user’s needs will vary. The only other suggestion I have is using Norton Sandbox and its settings to try and avoid the headaches.

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SA

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The suggestion is that you create a new master folder and then move all your development files and folders into that folder. Then exclude that master folder and all child folders from Norton Scans.

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