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huggle - issue #211

Norton SONAR Flagging Huggle as a virus.


Posted on Oct 16, 2011 by Happy Monkey

Originally Reported by User:Nasnema on the English Wikipedia

Norton's SONAR protection doesn't like version 2.1.18. It immediately blocks and quarantines the file complaining of suspicious activity. At the moment I can't trust Huggle at all, because version 17 is doing crazy updates and version 18 isn't liked by Norton.

Comment #1

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 by Massive Bear

Could you tell me if it happens with older versions too? I assume so, according to virustotal.com it's clean

Comment #2

Posted on Oct 23, 2011 by Happy Kangaroo

It looks as though Norton's SONAR knows there is a link to previous versions, and in my case starting with my original Huggle 2.1.15, which it says is the source file. Then I managed to update all the way to 2.1.17 without any problems, but come 2.1.18 (the third update) it's decided this is suspicious activity. I stopped using 2.1.17 when an incident occurred of it reverting a reverter and blanked several pages in the process.

It looks harmless enough from what SONAR said it was doing to the system: Source File: huggle 2.1.15.exe File Created: huggle 2.1.16.exe File Created: huggle 2.1.17.exe File Created: huggle 2.1.18.exe


System Settings Actions Event: Browser process start (Performed by c:...\huggle 2.1.18.exe, PID:1412) No action taken Event: Process start (Performed by c:...\huggle 2.1.18.exe, PID:5032) No action taken

I am going to break this chain and try again having removed the file from quarantine. Nasnema.

Comment #3

Posted on Oct 23, 2011 by Massive Bear

OK, let me know if you had more troubles with that, otherwise I consider this as sorted out

Comment #4

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 by Happy Kangaroo

I couldn't get SONAR to forget anything so I'll have to wait for a new version and ensure that it is a direct download. Maybe I'll wait for version 3.

Comment #5

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 by Helpful Camel

Moved to Bugzilla

Status: Closed

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Type-Defect Priority-Medium