[Python-Dev] [Webmaster] Unsafe listing by Norton's "File Insight"

[Peter]

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On 6/07/2016 2:39 AM, Steve Dower wrote:
> On 04Jul2016 2241, Steve Holden wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> While the humble webmasters can do little about this it's possible the
>> developers can, so I am forwarding your email to their mailing list.
>>
>> regards
>>  Steve
>>
>> Steve Holden
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Peter via Webmaster
>> <webmaster at python.org <mailto:webmaster at python.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi
>>     I'm a heavy user of Python on Windows, am a Basic PSF member and
>>     have contributed to core Python.
>>     The Python 2.7.12 Windows installer download is being marked as
>>     untrusted by Norton Internet Security. I've been on chat with
>>     Symantec, and they've said that I can't do anything about that
>>     rating, but that the site owner can.
>>     I've been pointed to:
>>     https://safeweb.norton.com/help/site_owners
>>     Interestingly, the 3.5.2 download is flagged as safe.
>>     Hoping to get more Python out to users!
>>     Thanks
>>     Peter
>
> Peter, can you provide the exact URL that safeweb is complaining 
> about? I tried a few at https://safeweb.norton.com/ and they all 
> showed up as clean.
>
> Also please clarify whether this is what you mean. It's not entirely 
> clear whether the download is being scanned or the reputation of the 
> URL is in question.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>

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