Norton Internet Security won't run my aplications

[Disthron]

Hi everyone.

I got Norton Internet Security a while back and for some reason, a few months ago it started blocking any program made with MMF2 Developer. It comes up with a pop-up saying "SONAR detected security risk stdrt.exe" and then it said that it deletes it.

If I turn off Anti-virus auto protection for a few seconds while I start the program it starts and continues to run fine. Also, it's not just stuff that I make it's any game/program made with a MMF2.

This seems very strange to me, but I plan on selling the game I'm working on and if it's sending up red flags with peoples virus protection they are going to wont there money back.

[Jeff]

Uncheck the compress the runtime option in your application properties then Norton will only ask you once and when you allow the game to have access it will remember it.

This is how Norton "protects" your computer.

[DavidN]

Anti-virus programs - particularly Norton - seem to have periodic problems with MMF2-based files. A certain amount of code is common to most MMF2-made applications, so it's a particularly noticeable problem.

The best thing you can do is to submit the file as a false positive to Norton, and they'll hopefully fix it in a future database update.

Edit: Oh yes, and the above.

[Jeff]

Maybe I was wrong --- He says it deleted stdrt.exe I thought it was just blocking it.

A lot of firewalls will inform you about stdrt.exe trying to communicate on the internet as its something most people would want to know. When its compressed inside an EXE the firewall thinks its a new program ever time.

When its not compressed a decent firewall should remember after
the first time you allowed it thru.

If Norton deletes the file then the user needs to contact Norton and tell them to fix their scanner. Nothing we can do on this side.

[RickyRombo]

SONAR is annoying. Disable it or add the folder you make your exes in to the ignore list.

And tell Norton that their anti-virus should ASK before deleting things when reporting the false positive.

[Disthron]

Hay, thanks everyone, once I unchecked compress runtime it worked instantly. It didn't even send up a red flag.

[snigel]

This is still however a problem to run any other persons games which are compressed since it will alarm every time you run the game, considering the "stdrt.exe" is unpacked into a temporary location it's impossible to add it to a list of accepted exe:s.. I've been annoyed by this for a looong time...

[Yves]

Weird, I've submitted compressed and non compressed apps saved with both MMF2 and MMF2 Developer on virustotal.com, and none of those 4 files got reported as possible malware by Norton...

I wonder if they fixed it already?

[BackStaged]

For your informations, i have Kaspersky PURE.

And some extensions was deleted by him.
So, i send the quarantined files to the Kaspersky VirusLab.
Then unactivate my Antivirus, and restaured the files.

Plus: i zipping the files into a password-protected archive and waiting for the correction of Kaspersky databases, and, few days after, the alert was gone!

Then, unzipping my password-protected archive and MMF2 do not breaked anymore by Kaspersky.

Then just tell to Norton VirusLab the false detection by sending their detected files!

[Yves]

Kaspersky are very good for false positives. When you send them a false positive they answer a couple hours later, they apologize and they fix the problem asap. I wish all the anti-virus companies would be like them...

I currently use Eset NOD32 but my second choice would be Kaspersky.