Your thoughts about the new "Gearotic Motion" software

[Sthibeault]

Art, I downloaded the demo version today. Norton is calling it a security risk and displaying the following message: gearoticmotion.exe A program was behaving suspiciously on your computer. This program was blocked and removed. Any thoughts?

[Ken_Shea]

Sthibeault,
My solution would b to dump Norton, used it for years and finally just uninstalled it, too many issues using it. The fact that I had always used Norton was not a good reason to keep using it.

Art had suggested on the forum to call Norton and see if they have a solution, could try that first.

[neilw20]

Art's programs are not a problem (unless it is a fake one by someone else)
Norton is the awful problem (IMHO) - and you have to pay for it to be a pest!!
Just use Microsoft Security Essentials, Noscript and addblock plus.
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[Art Fenerty]

Hi:

Im beginning to think Norton is the real virus.

This is the third report of norton reporting it as a virus, but no other virus scanner appears to. The other users disabled the warning and everything seems fine. Ive scanned it myself, ( and my system is virus scanned daily)
and I cant find any trouble with the demo.

You may want to report the program to Norton as a false positive in scanning.

Art

[neilw20]

Nicely put, Art. Keep up your excellent work. I love my Mach3.

[bowber]

Hi

This has happened to me with Norton as well, I got it installed by disabling sonar and insight protection but came back to play with Gearotic tonight and the exe had been removed!
Norton has the same problem with Alibre Design as well, you have to disable the sonar and insight protection to get it to install but it runs fine.
Not had any other problems with Norton so far though so maybe it's just the Gearotic name ;-)

Steve

[Dean448]

At the risk of over blowing this Norton topic.... I went into the Norton settings and disabled this sonic feature on this one program. It loaded fine without deleting anything and runs fine. I wouldn't disable the feature for everything. In researching what was happening, Norton isn't saying that the program is a virus, it says its seeing 'suspicious behavior'. In the end folks will continue to use Norton, and no changes are going to be made to Gearotic Motion, so it might be helpful to post something in Gearotic explaining that this might come up and what to do when this happens.

[Art Fenerty]

Hi Dean:
Thx for the suggestion, Ive added this as a topic in Gearotics forum in the event someone searches for a problem with Norton. It seems to be the "earotic" in the programs name. ( I guess erotic Ears are soemthing
Norton hates. )

Art