Hello all,
For interest, those of you who want to use winbox on machines with Norton Internet Security on them. You might run into issues, I did.
Upon downloading winbox.exe (from the web page hosted on the mikrotik router itself, not the mikrotik main website) Norton File Insight catches it as a medium risk file and deletes it before I get a chance to run it! Normally I wouldn’t go near Norton for fear of catching a bad bad rash. In this case however I wasn’t using a machine under my control.
Norton Internet Security 17.7.0.12
Its not a big deal, i’ll just use another machine. But it was interesting. I wonder why Norton detects it as a threat?
What follows is the output from the Norton File Insight alert window:
c:\users\mcdonalds\downloads\winbox.exe
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On computer as of
1/08/2010 at 6:07:57 p.m.
Last Used:
1/08/2010 at 6:07:57 p.m.
Startup Item: No
Launched: No
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Many Users
Hundreds of users in the Norton Community have used this file.
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Medium
This file risk is medium.
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Threat Details
There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy and therefore not safe
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Origin
Downloaded from http://vpn.l2.co.nz/winbox/winbox.exe
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http://vpn.l2.co.nz/winbox/winbox.exe
UNTESTED
Downloaded File:
winbox.exe
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File Actions
Infected file: c:\users\mcdonalds\downloads\winbox.exe
Removed
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File Thumbprint:
704e35d73f79fbbcd84bc202d86ae38265d5c45715cec2b2a3dba90f3e0ccf9c
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