Dear Norton Community,
I wrote my own little calculator program, which I use instead of the one that comes with windows. I have it here:
C:\Users\jeff\My Documents\rpn calculator\rpn calculator.exe
I have a registry entry that makes it so that the calculator button on my keyboard opens my calculator instead of the default windows calculator.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\18]
"ShellExecute"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Jeff\\My Documents\\rpn calculator\\rpn calculator.exe"
I put my "rpn calculator.exe" in the "user trusted file" section of Norton's Application Ratings. However, SONAR detects the file as a HIGH level security threat and deletes it. It also asks for a restart. I can sometimes recover the file from the quarantine and tell it that yes, I want the file excluded from future scans, but SONAR later deletes the file again. It does not ask me if the file is maybe not a threat. The The only solution I have so far is to disable SONAR.
I would like to be able to enable SONAR, but it is simply too aggressive for me. Is there something I can do?
Some additional strange behavior, and potentially a security risk, is that if I enable SONAR and then try to run "rpn calculator.exe", it won't run. Then if I disable SONAR and try to run the calculator again, it runs. Only a short while after disabling SONAR does a warning appear that SONAR has detected a security threat and it deletes "rpn calculator.exe". It does not show up in the quarantine, but it does show up in the history. The history entry says that I chose to block and remove the application, but I chose no such thing.
Thanks,
Jeff