Norton anti-virus has just kicked in and removed Mono.Cecil.Mdb.dll and Mono.Cecil.Rocks.dll from the xamarin.forms.2.0.0.6490 package of a project that somebody sent me as part of a delivery of a work package. Norton says of the reason for removal:
"WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.
The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques."
Has anybody else had this happen? I've compared the file that was sent to me with one from my own project and they match exactly, so it's probably just Norton being over-zealous. Might be something to watch out for if you start getting weird problems with the XF NuGet package.
I'll get into the habit of deleting packages folders (I already delete bin and obj) of any project sent to me though :-)