user icongonzaljohn on May 3rd 2006
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topic iconInstalling RW icon editor

Detected malware?

Hello,

When I attempt to install the RW icon editor I get a message from Norton AV indicating that a malicious script has been detected and I should stop. Any advice?

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user iconpete on May 8th 2006 0

Its you choice of course, but I doubt that its just a problem with Norton - I would expect any AV sofware to flag an app that attempts to run a script as the AV sofware has no way of knowing what the script does.
My first reaction was to just dump the demo and not bother any further - I glad I didn't because it looks to be a very useful.

Pete

user iconFerrariMan on April 18th 2007 0

No offense, but can't you just save an image as .cur or .ico in Paint or any other image editing/drawing program instead of getting a cursor editor?

user iconFerrariMan on April 18th 2007 0

P.S. I still always like to use your cursor editor anyway. Oh yeah, and since paint isn't made for cursors, you can't set hot spot or all the other nice features of your editor.

user iconVlasta on April 18th 2007 0

Paint does not support .ico and .cur formats.

user iconFerrariMan on April 18th 2007 0

Yes, but you can save it with that extension. For example, if you save your cursor as *whatever*.ico, Windows would recognize it as so.

user iconVlasta on April 18th 2007 0

Changing file extensions is not a good idea. You can of course rename anyting to .exe, but that does not make it a valid executable file. While .ico and .cur are similar, there are also differences - there is a hot spot in cursor and there are usually multiple images in an icon.

user iconAnonymous on September 28th 2007 0

hey so is this safe?

user iconMr. Zidgel on September 30th 2007 0

I don't know.

user iconVlasta on September 30th 2007 0

It is safe, but it would not do any good.

user iconSalemKnight on October 2nd 2008 0

I got the same exact message from Norton. No need to worry, this program is safe. Norton can be very...err...picky. It can false detect somethings once in a while.

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