my firebird.dll was submitted to Norton’s SARC this afternoon so hopefully it will get removed as a false positive. Apparently you can only submit one file a day, so the pspv.zip file gets sent to them tomorrow. UpdateThe (automated) response came back in saying that the file is infected -“result: This file is infected with Trojan Horse.
Developer notes: X:\Program Files\MozillaFirebird\FireDLL.dll is non-repairable threat. NAV with the latest
beta definition detects this. Please delete this file and replace it if neccessary. Please follow the instruction at the end of this email message to install the latest beta definitions. ”
Nowhere have they said that oh sorry, this might be a false positive – grrrrr
Update 2Looking on google it looks like some other people have had the same problem with firedll.dll. It turns out that this is a tool that was available for download on grc.com which tests whether your personal firewall is subject to leaks, allowing utils access to the internet that you’ve specifically not authorised. Norton (and others) have now decided this is not acceptable to have on your pc. Related to this, you can see if your AV software acts in the same way by checking to see whether you can download these two files from the firehole site
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Symantec have agreed to take a second look at the submissions I sent them.
Interesting, I have Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and just updated like an hour ago (the definition files) and I downloaded those 2 files and scanned them. Didn’t turn up anything. Weird, those concidered virii?
You won’t get them detected as a virus now after the definitions were corrected when I posted about this – two months ago!