Re: Norton Antivirus Worm Protection blocks Skype

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:33:32 -0500

Possibly the application list is MD5 hashed to prevent malware from trying
to run with that executable name which a lot of software firewalls do. I am
not familiar with your version of Norton but there should be an option to
update the executable to allow for a new version somewhere in the settings
or try deleting your currently allowed filename and the next time the
warning appears tell it to allow it to see if that works. --- Steve

"aswollenstream" <aswollenstream@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA14D17A-208B-4152-932F-704FD174333C@microsoft.com...
> Hi! I'm new to this forum. I have been using Antivirus 2005 and Skype
> (freeware, internet telephony) for about two weeks on my new machine, and
> had
> no problems with it, until I installed the new version of Skype two days
> ago.
> I cannot run Skype without getting warnings from Worm Protection
> constantly,
> even though I have added skype.exe to my exception list in Antivirus.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.