646708 - Norton Internet Security 2011 SONAR recognizes "plugin-container.exe" as a security risk and automatically deletes the file in the Minefield / Firefox folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 644125

(Plugins Graveyard :: Norton 360, defect)

Description

[Chris B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110330 Firefox/4.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110330 Firefox/4.2a1pre

Every so often Norton Internet Security SONAR alert pops up and says that a recent file has been acting suspiciously.  The file is one of yours and is "C:\Program Files(x86)\Minefield\plugin-container.exe"  When this happens, TWO things occur:

1) Norton Internet Security automatically DELETES the file
2) When this file is deleted, Minefield starts crashing on Flash pages and PDF files

I then need to reinstall Minefield to restore the "plugin-container" file and prevent the crashes.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Actual Results:  
Norton SONAR sometimes automatically deletes "plugin-container.exe" because "the file was acting suspiciously."

Expected Results:  
Norton SONAR should not recognize a legitimate Mozilla file as a security alert.

Comment 1

[Chris B.]

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Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You should talk with Norton about their stupid tool or remove it when they can't fix it