I have Real Studio but I have not used it for a couple of years. I wanted to go to the forum to ask a question and I was at XOJO. Is this Real Studio?
Did someone called XOJO buy them out or did Real Studio just do a name change?
I tried to make a change in a program and I received a message from Norton/Symantec that Debug MY Application is a Trojan Horse.
Threat name was Sonar.Heuristic.120
Is there a problem?
‘Heuristic’… anytime you see that in any virus scanner/guard notification, then it is very likely to be a false notification. Today’s A/V’s use what they believe as ‘smart’ detection capabilities, which look for ‘suspicious’ activities that they think may be a virus or trojan that IS NOT YET entered into their detection database. Problem is, there are a thousand legitimate reasons why a new application may open a port, or any other activity the scanner/guard determines COULD be unsafe. Best thing to do is just disable ‘Heuristic’ scanning. I know some people will believe they’re less safe from doing this, but there’s no guarantees that having this enabled that you will catch viruses or trojans that aren’t yet in a database, nor is it guaranteed (obviously) that it won’t generate false alarms. With my experience, it has only come up on software that I know doesn’t contain a virus.
Re Sonar.Heuristic.120 problem, I think I successfully got around this by doing the following:
Launch Norton Security Suite
Click on the Settings tab at the top
Click on Antivirus icon
Click on the Scans and Risks tab
Click on +Configure on the line that says "Items to Exclude from Auto-Protect, SONAR and download intelligence Detection.
Click on the Add button.
Select Add - Folders and add the Xojo folder in the C:\Program_Files(x86)\Xojo folder and your folder with your Xojo projects.
Select Apply and make the changes permanent
If that doesn’t do it, also go to the Antivirus icon / Automatic Protection tab and turn off Sonar Protection or at least set Remove Risks Automatically to “Ask me.”