Check the snippet below. Check the stats.
Symantec has known of this file for over a year.
Fewer than 50 Symantec customers have seen the file.
Strong evidence the file is untrustworthy.
Bunk.
If fewer than 50 customers have seen this file, then very few customers work daily with scripts, batch files, xml, html, asp, vbs and so on. It's a not all that uncommon text editor. It's clean, it works, it's been around for at least 5 years I am aware of, probably longer.
If it's been known about for over a year, then I would expect that it's been seen as safe in that time - how can one know about a file that long, and not know it's safe?
Evidence it's untrustworthy - What evidence? It simply, like thousands of others, integrates into the explorer context menu system. (Adobe products do that too, and I'd trust this 10,000 times over any Adobe product which are full of security holes, open your computer to malware just by being there and being used, and require security patches no less often than every month. When was the last time Qwined allowed things to run or create files on your computer, or launched other apps without you saying it was ok?
I ran into the same thing with the 360 product on my home computer - a poor lady was trying hard to install the software that came on a CD with her embroidery/sewing machine. The company - Viking/Husquavarna. Heard of them before? Yes, the respected company over there, chain saws, lawn and garden equipment, and high-end sewing and embroidery and quilting machines. I told this lady to give me the CD and I'd check it out. Norton 360 prevented me from doing anything because it saw the install file as a threat.
The reasons? Fewer than 5 Symantec customers had seen the file (apparently Symantec customers don't sew!), among other reasons. Because if came from a CD, it was red-flagged as well. Could I copy it to my local drive and run it? Nope. Could I tell 360 is was a safe file - exclude it? Nope - because it was on a CD. I finally told the lady - shut down that software completely, turn it off, run your install so you can use your sewing machine. There was literally no way at all to tell the product to allow that file to run and install, even trying to copy locally was blocked. I spent an hour trying.
Similarly, I had to disable SEP to get this text editor install file downloaded so I could get back to work editing VBS files. I know SEP won't allow me to keep the file because it came from an untrusted source - I trust it, Symantec's products do not. I better run the install fast and ZIP and password protect the install file to keep it from being removed by SEP.
There's got to be a better way...............
