Norton reporting virus on downloading Xamarin Android Player in Windows 8.1

Question

User42522 posted

See the screenshot attached. Norton is finding a serious threat and deleting the downloaded file.

Answer 1

User209 posted

It is a false positive. The reason it gives is, WS.Reputation.1:

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. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. 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.

This probably means that someone reported this as a threat at some point, or maybe Norton, just shows this false positive when it does not have any data about an executable.

Answer 2

User42522 posted

Then what is the work around if not a solution?

Answer 3

User209 posted

Uninstall Norton and install a proper AV solution? Or temporarily disable it while installing.

Answer 4

User131657 posted

Norton uses a Reputation system for files that it does not know. If they are not that common then things that have nothing wrong can be reported as if they have a virus. You can send a report to Norton to have this one put on the list.

As for a proper AV solution, I would trust Norton over most others, especially the one that Mr Cheese is using.