NORTON SONAR / FIP REMOVAL


At around July 2011, the Featherweight Interface Program (FIP) started being identified by Norton 'SONAR' as a possible threat. Rather than asking the user what to do, Norton simply removed the program. Googling on the topic indicates that small software development houses have been complaining about the 'false positives' from Norton SONAR for years (Google for 'Norton SONAR False Positive'). As such, the following describe steps for disabling the feature in Norton. I myself will disable it permanently and only turn it on if I am seeing if I can figure a way to get it to stop its behavior.


Disabling Norton SONAR is relatively easy to do via the following steps. Note that when SONAR is disabled, Norton changes appearance to indicate that your system is no longer protected so the steps below also cover configuring Norton to not consider SONAR being off as being 'unprotected'.


First start your Norton suite by clicking on the icon in the task tray or from Start> Programs> Norton Security Suite ICON

Next click on the 'AntiVirus' settings:

Then from there change SONAR protection to OFF:

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Norton will ask you how long you want this setting. You can use a shorter time duration but then future Featherweight Auto Updates may be killed by Norton and you may be forced to go back to the web site to get the setup again after disabling Norton again. For myself, I am turning it off permanently as it appears to be mostly false positives for small volume software development (Google for "Norton SONAR false positive").

Click OK and rerun the FIP install which should now proceed as normal. Short cuts to get you started are:

But now Norton in the task tray may show a small red 'x' on it and opening it may say your PC is 'at risk'.

If you turned SONAR off permanently, you may want to get rid of this behavior / display so the following steps describe telling Norton to ignore that SONAR is off.

Go to Settings again:

Then click on Administrative Settings:

Then Open the 'Configure[+]' item:

Uncheck 'SONAR Advanced Protection' and click 'Apply'

Now SONAR is turned off (permanently if you selected that option) and Norton indicates a green 'Protected'

 

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