Norton Antivirus reporting einsteinbinary_brp4_1.34_windows_x86_64__opencl-intel_gpu.exe as a virus
15 Jan 2017 20:10:03 UTC
Topic 204660
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Norton Antivirus is reporting the Einstein GPU software as a virus. Someone reported this as using a high amount of GPU cycles.
Can you submit this to Norton Antivirus as not being a virus or release a new version of the software and have that evaluated for possible virus threats.
What happens on my end is as soon as the software is executed it then evaluated as a virus and cancelled. It then reports back to Einstein that there was an error computing.
Filename: einsteinbinary_brp4_1.34_windows_x86_64__opencl-intel_gpu.exe
Full Path: c:\programdata\boinc\projects\einstein.phys.uwm.edu\einsteinbinary_brp4_1.34_windows_x86_64__opencl-intel_gpu.exe
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Developers
Not Available
Version
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Identified
2016-11-14 at 2:17:21 PM
Last Used
Not Available
Startup Item
No
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Many Users
Thousands of users in the Norton Community have used this file.
Mature
This file was released 3 years 11 months ago.
Bad
There are many indications that this file is untrustworthy.
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http://einstein-dl.syr.edu/download/einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.34_windows_x86...
Downloaded File einsteinbinary_brp4_1.34_windows_x86_64__opencl-intel_gpu.exe from syr.edu
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File Thumbprint - SHA:
2a64099fb4751c67639b53be1187b10ca7c0310e1dee4582f88edc411a8948a0
File Thumbprint - MD5:
Not available
Thank you in advance.
Welcome to the E@H
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Welcome to the E@H boards
https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH98360.html has some suggestions for you to work around the issue.
I may suggest it would be better if you submitted the report, as Symantec (aka Norton) many need additional information, version/product numbers etc.
VirusTotal reports nothing.
Good luck.
Until Norton whitelists the
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Until Norton whitelists the file again you could always exclude Boinc's data directory from active scanning by Norton.
Holmis wrote:Until Norton
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Which is what most of us do after a few of these 'false positives' that cause problems with our crunching. Excluding the Boinc directories just means THEY do not get scanned, any real virus will of course try to infect other directories and still get caught.