Norton Antivirus Worm Protection blocks Skype

[Guest]

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.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

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

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?p=69521

Tom
| 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.