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Norton won't let me update Minefield 'Threat has been detected' How to solve this?

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AnonymousUser
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I am not able to update Minefield, Norton (from Symantec) will delete the following: updater.exe


This happened

Every time Firefox opened

Every update

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100506 Minefield/3.7a5pre

I am not able to update Minefield, Norton (from Symantec) will delete the following: updater.exe == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Every update == == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100506 Minefield/3.7a5pre

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Thanks Morbus, it worked.

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Morbus
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Hello Touan.

That is yet another false positive from Norton. Just temporarily disable it while you're updating.

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Thanks Morbus, it worked.