There is no help in forums & more than the employees of Symantec, the several high-profile users with a lot of rep (read fawners) will point out enthusiastically, how this is not Symantec’s issue. Many of Nirsoft’s programs are detected falsely as viruses and Trojans, and not just WS.Reputation.1. Like, I always face problems with Nirsoft’s tools & Norton antivirus. They simply refuse to acknowledge such issues & expect the devs and companies developing such software to contact them as its not Symantec’s problem!! Second, its arrogance of such big companies. Its the only remedy, as first, Norton is the only product which runs without slowing down my Vista system – I am unable to use anything else! It is mighty annoying & every time I setup any Norton product, one of the first things I do is, exclude locations & folders with such software from their auto-protect, sonar, et al protection systems. I found this system in late 2010 actually, in their 2011 product line. They may receive additional support requests to resolve the issue, and may be forced to communicate with Symantec to get the issue resolved and their programs whitelisted. Users may think that the software distributed by a particular developer includes malware, and even if they do not think that, they may decide to not install the program as it may not be worth the potential troubles.ĭevelopers on the other hand may also feel the impact of the system. The main problem from a developer perspective is that the system may negatively impact their business. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks.
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