For years now I've been using a program called Mime-Proxy by Patrick Lamaizière in conjunction with Xnews for newsgroups, because Xnews on its own can't handle things such as umlauts. I have been using the same version for years, and have been using it on this computer for well over a year.
Yesterday, after I updated Norton Security Suite, Norton terminated the process and removed Mime-Proxy (mproxy.exe) because of the threat WS.Reputation.1. I moved a backup copy of the file back into the folder, scanned it with Norton and with Malwarebytes - both said it was OK - and ran it, and it was removed again.
In addition, Norton then removed a program called mplaunch.exe, which is used to start Mime-Proxy automatically at startup, and which I've also been using for years (the same version), because it was "behaving suspiciously." File Insight says the threat in this case is SONAR.Dropper.
I clicked on the button to submit mproxy.exe to Norton, but I'm not offered the same option with mplaunch.exe (the only available options are "Restore & exclude this file" and "Remove from history"). But I'm not sure what good submitting the program would do me, anyway. Norton Security Suite didn't ask for a contact address when I submitted mproxy.exe.
Since I've been using Norton for as long as I've been using both of these programs, why has it just started messing with them now?
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WS.Reputation.1 and Mime-Proxy
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