Expatcher.exe shows up as a low rep file and gets deleted
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:16 am
I've tried to download expatcher.exe twice and it gets automatically deleted by my virus scanner. It reports as having the WS.Reputation.1 which means:
Behavior
WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.
The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques.
So, basically not a lot of people use it safely, so I'm not allowed to use it at all. It's probably perfectly fine, but my system screens it out. I know it's a known issue, but it's not like my virus scanner is saying it's infected. It's just saying it's too noob for me to play with. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo how do I patch?
Behavior
WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.
The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques.
So, basically not a lot of people use it safely, so I'm not allowed to use it at all. It's probably perfectly fine, but my system screens it out. I know it's a known issue, but it's not like my virus scanner is saying it's infected. It's just saying it's too noob for me to play with. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo how do I patch?