Hi all, it seems indeed that this is a pure Norton issue, since pidgin.exe (last version) is not being detected as a malware by 42 different AV engines ( www.virustotal.com). You could report that to the Norton's support, and/or set it up as an exclusion, as other folks said.
HTH. Cheers, -- Ph. VIALLE Computers security consultant www.ph-v.net 2011/6/27 Brian Morrison <[email protected]> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:58:24 -0400 > Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Daniel Curry spake unto us the following wisdom: > > > I don't know if one aware that Norton (symatic) antivirus deletes > > > pidgin.exe 2.9 binary file. 2.8 and below was no problem. > > > > You need to report this to Norton, their antivirus is broken and > > wrong. > > It should be possible to temporarily prevent Norton from scanning the > directory where the Pidgin files reside. > > -- > > Brian Morrison > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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