Deep Throat Trojan Alert

[Sorabji]

I just now downloaded utorrent from the official site. The instant I started downloading my first torrent, Norton popped up an alert saying it had blocked Deep Throat Trojan. I just installed a new system two weeks ago, and I know I'm clean otherwise, and have no other leaks anywhere.

I had a similar problem with Ares, but have never had that problem using TomatoTorrent on Mac.

I keep reading that utorrent is supposed to be clean, and I know about false positives. But Deep Throat, by accident?

Can anyone please help out with some advice? Thanks in advance.

[DreadWingKnight]

I highly suspect that it has to do with the Local Peer Discovery support.

I suspect norton is being overprotective.

[Sorabji]

Okay, thank you for the reply. I hope you're right. It just seemed odd that Norton would actually name a known threat as opposed to saying it just blocked an anonymous attack like it did when I used Ares.

[Firon]

AV programs tend to report something as being a specific threat when they see a certain port being used, even though it may have nothing to do with it.

[Switeck]

And just why the heck is the antivirus software playing 'firewall'?

...or is it the firewall software too now?

[jewelisheaven]

OP probably has "norton internet security".. firewall+AV+worm+email, etc. and so forth, you know.. Can't have other vendors with their software on computers these days <sigh>