What is WS.Reputation.1?

 


 

UPDATE FROM SYMANTEC last edited by Tony Weiss on June 02, 2010


Since this has become a lengthy thread, we've updated this first post to provide useful information to new forum members. While we work hard to gather info about as many files and configurations as possible, there are occasionally situations where we may encounter programs that get identified as WS.Reputation.1. We apologize for the inconvenience, and would like your help in improving the service and preventing any re-occurrence.

 

In the event that a file has been wrongly identified as WS.Reputation.1, please submit it here for review. For a workaround on this issue, please follow the directions in this post. I would also recommend that you review this post for information on why some of your files may be identified as WS.Reputation.1.

 

 


 

 

 

I am continually getting a warning that every .rar file has this in it.  This file (Ws.Reputation.1) is quarantined every time I right-click on a .rar file and choose to analyze it with Insight Network Scan.

 

However, when I run a full system scan, Norton detects only cookies.

 

It doesn't seem to pick up on the "infected" .rar files unless I right-click on them, and choose Insight Network Scan.

 

I have Norton Antivirus 2010. Please let me know what this is and how to get it to stop showing up on every .rar file that I have downloaded!