[tor-talk] Norton Antivirus and Tor Browser Bundle

andrew at torproject.org andrew at torproject.org
Wed Aug 31 11:52:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:18:34AM -0700, michaelwprx at yahoo.com.au wrote 1.2K bytes in 33 lines about:
: I extracted Tor Browser Bundle to my flash drive and clicked on Tor.exe
: Norton Antivirus immediately flagged Tor.exe as a virus and deleted it.

You want to run 'start tor browser.exe' to start it correctly.  And
norton probably quarantined it somewhere.  You can remove it from
quarantine.  It would be interesting to know which virus/malware norton
thinks it has.

-- 
Andrew
pgp key: 0x74ED336B


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