[Elecraft] Norton and P3 Utility

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

I have seen numerous reports of this particular Norton heuristic showing up in what smells like false positives in many cases, although you can’t just discount the possibility I suppose.  Neither Kaspersky nor BitDefender have ever found anything awry with P3Utility on systems I use.

You can send the exe file to Norton, supposedly for “further analysis” at https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ <https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/>.  Whether or not they actually do anything with it is anyone’s guess, but I‘ll take them at their word that they might at least put P3Utility in “exonerated” status if they find nothing wrong with it.  I got tired years ago of Norton spending most of it’s time just getting in the way, that I dumped it.  YMMV … 


Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342


On Jul 4, 2017, at 8:17 AM, K5MWR via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Don't know if anyone else has experienced this but this morning I get this message from Norton that the P3utility program is a threat named "Heur.AdvML.C" and that P3Utility.exe has been removed.
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> Don't know if the recent major upgrade of Windows had any effect or most likely it is due to the low number of P3Utility users that also have Norton installed as they show less than 100 users.
> 
> Expect this is just another of those cases where Norton is flagging because of few users so just going to reload.
> 
> Pasted below is the Norton explanation.  No need to flame Norton, I understand its peculiarities just posted for information only.
> 
> 73 Dave K5MWR
> 
> 
> Filename: p3utility.exe
> Threat name: Heur.AdvML.CFull Path: c:\program files (x86)\elecraft\p3 utility\p3utility.exe
>