Norton Antivirus a slide show killer: beware.
Posted: Jun 1, 2010 6:56 pmPicture this for frustrating:
You've just created your executable slide show masterpiece, it works fine, so you delete your original folder of images and the slide show project program that created it. A coulple weeks later, you install Norton Anti-virus. Your friends are in town and you gather 'round your computer monitor and fire up the show. It hesitates, then disappers from the folder you were launching it in. a pop-up informs you that Norton Sonar has removed a threat to your computer. No preliminary warning with a box to uncheck or check, the program has decided your file is a threat (basically because Norton has never heard of it, and can't vouch for it). You decide in frustration to eliminate Norton from your computer.
Now, the latter is reasonable based on their arrogance in being so Big Brother on us. But the idea for screening exe's is a good one. But Norton is never going to have a record of your unique executable file, and will continue to see it as "dangerous", unless you get online and "apply" for that executable to be allowed. Then you wait 7 days (I swear, this is what their Tech's solution was). However, despite what their Tech says, you can go into the friggin' program "settings" dialog and turn this sucker off. For varying time periods, until you reboot, or forever until notified.
So, keep in mind if you are creating slide show EXE that they could get nuked by your own anti-virus program---or on a friend's machine that you had e-mailed the show to. Make good backups early in the production process. Having your show on a cd-rom ensures it can never be deleted, too, so Suck on that, Norton SONAR!
Aside from trying to alert folks, I am curious if others have had this problem.
You've just created your executable slide show masterpiece, it works fine, so you delete your original folder of images and the slide show project program that created it. A coulple weeks later, you install Norton Anti-virus. Your friends are in town and you gather 'round your computer monitor and fire up the show. It hesitates, then disappers from the folder you were launching it in. a pop-up informs you that Norton Sonar has removed a threat to your computer. No preliminary warning with a box to uncheck or check, the program has decided your file is a threat (basically because Norton has never heard of it, and can't vouch for it). You decide in frustration to eliminate Norton from your computer.
Now, the latter is reasonable based on their arrogance in being so Big Brother on us. But the idea for screening exe's is a good one. But Norton is never going to have a record of your unique executable file, and will continue to see it as "dangerous", unless you get online and "apply" for that executable to be allowed. Then you wait 7 days (I swear, this is what their Tech's solution was). However, despite what their Tech says, you can go into the friggin' program "settings" dialog and turn this sucker off. For varying time periods, until you reboot, or forever until notified.
So, keep in mind if you are creating slide show EXE that they could get nuked by your own anti-virus program---or on a friend's machine that you had e-mailed the show to. Make good backups early in the production process. Having your show on a cd-rom ensures it can never be deleted, too, so Suck on that, Norton SONAR!
Aside from trying to alert folks, I am curious if others have had this problem.