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Norton and P3 Utility

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.

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

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On computers as of
11/27/2016 at 10:45:58 AM

Last Used
7/4/2017 at 07:07:08 AM

Startup Item
No

Launched
No

Threat type: Heuristic Virus. Detection of a threat based on malware
heuristics.

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p3utility.exe Threat name: Heur.AdvML.C
Locate

Few Users
Fewer than 100 users in the Norton Community have used this file.

Mature
This file was released 1 year 4 months ago.

High
This file risk is high.

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Source: External Media

Source File:
p3utility.exe

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File Actions

File: c:\program files (x86)\elecraft\p3 utility\ p3utility.exe Removed
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Grant Youngman-2

Re: Norton and P3 Utility

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 <[hidden email]> 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.
>
> 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
>

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Re: Norton and P3 Utility

’73 de JIM N2ZZ
Director – Roanoke Division
Serving ARRL members in the Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina sections
ARRL – The National Association for Amateur Radio™

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of GRANT YOUNGMAN
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 8:38 AM
To: K5MWR
Cc: Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Norton and P3 Utility

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 <[hidden email]> wrote:

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