0001013: Norton falsely claims that OpenMPT is potentially unsafe

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0001013	OpenMPT	General	public	2017-08-16 11:38	2017-08-16 12:04

Reporter	Drillimation	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Platform	Microsoft Windows	OS	Any version	OS Version	Any version
Product Version	OpenMPT 1.26.14.00 / libopenmpt 0.2-beta27 (upgrade first)

Summary	0001013: Norton falsely claims that OpenMPT is potentially unsafe
Description	My antivirus software has been conflicting with Norton, where it potentially claims to be unsafe. Upon opening the installer for any program, and after installation, Norton does the same thing. Usually, a notification box says the installer requires attention, but the user has the option to run it anyway.
Steps To Reproduce	This can happen on any machine that has a version of Norton on it. Just simply download the installer and run it.
Tags	No tags attached.

Has the bug occurred in previous versions?	Yes
Tested code revision (in case you know it)

Saga Musix 2017-08-16 11:41 administrator ~0003174	Upon opening the installer for any program So if this is a problem with any software, how are we supposed to do anything about this? My proposed solution is to uninstall Norton and just use Windows Defender. If Norton claims that OpenMPT is a threat (which I understand it does not), you must submit the program to them as a false positive so that they can whitelist it.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-08-16 11:38	Drillimation	New Issue
2017-08-16 11:41	Saga Musix	Note Added: 0003174
2017-08-16 12:04	Saga Musix	Status	new => closed
2017-08-16 12:04	Saga Musix	Resolution	open => no change required