Evochron Merc from Impulse gets deleted by Norton 360 . . .

[slouching]

ok, so I bought Evochron Merc from impulse, but had the demo installed from starwraith. The demo works fine (in the default starwrath install dir) but when i fire up the installed one from impulse (it's installed in c:\\program files\\indie games\\evochron mercenary) Norton freaks out and deletes the executable. Why would Norton allow the exe from S.W. to run, but not the one from Impulse? Below details:



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On computer as of
9/18/2010 at 3:22:40 AM
Last Used:
9/18/2010 at 11:06:34 AM
Startup Item: No
Launched: Yes
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Very Few Users
Fewer than 10 users in the Norton Community have used this file.
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High
This file risk is high.
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Threat Details
SONAR Protection monitors for suspicious program activity on your computer.
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Origin

Downloaded from Not Available
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URL Not Available
UNTESTED

Source
evochronmercenary.exe
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File Actions
File: c:\\program files\\indie games\\evochron mercenary\\evochronmercenary.exe
Removed
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File Thumbprint:
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[Vice]

Norton is known to throw up false positives and delete files you may need and want (especially with 'new' programs it isn't familiar with and EM is certainly new). Could be where Impulse puts the file, could be something else Impulse does... it's difficult to say and hard to predict the behavior of Norton. You either have to manually add what you want to keep to its exception list or contact Norton and report the false positive (and wait and wait...). You can do that here:

https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/

If you don't have to use it, you may want to switch to something less intrusive and more system resource/gaming friendly.

[Edited on 9-18-2010 by Vice]

[Daedalao]

I'm not going to tell you that norton is a terrible terrible dictator, but norton is a terrible terrible dictator

[slouching]

Ok, thanks for the follow up. I figured it was a false positive, but it was just odd that Impulse's got flagged and the one from this site did not. Thanks again, and really look forward to exploring this awesome new game!