If you feel there is a virus on the software you should contact CNET. But I would suspect that Norton was, as it always is, overzealous. On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:27 AM, ron at ron-l-j.com wrote: > Ok it's bloat-ware enough to contain a trojan and is flagged by Norton as > trojan.exe. In this case its not nmap but a zip file for something or > other i was going to add to a desktop a few weeks ago. I scanned the file > before unzipping it. Then when I was doing a custom install, and unchecked > all the boxes, ran the install and it registered as a trojan and was > flagged and removed. It was from cnet and it was malware in my opinion. > > Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming (code, > scripts, active content, and other software) that is designed to disrupt > or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or > exploitation, or gain unauthorized access to system resources, or that > otherwise exhibits abusive behavior.[1] The expression is a general term > used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, > intrusive, or annoying software or program code. > > > ,Ron > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list