[Google-Desktop-Developer] Re: My leCalendar plugin

I understand your concern. This is definitely something I am hoping to
work around. I assure you that nothing "malicious" is going on. I can
give an explanation regarding why this is happening, but it is fairly
technical. What install.bat does is it executes leCalendar.msi, which
is the official install script generated by Google Desktops SDK
compiler. The plugin itself generates a unique ID to identify the
application. This was necessary to allow multiple plugins running on
multiple machines from conflicting with each other while attempting to
synchronize online. The unique ID is generated using a very standard
method which is used to generate a GUID. The problem is, for some
reason, Norton security products warn uses of "malicious scripts"
whenever a standard JavaScript file tries to generate a GUID using this
method. This might make sense if the JavaScript file is secretly being
executed via a webpage, but doesn't make sense if it is an application
being installed (such as this plugin.)

In any case, I apologize for the confusion. If anyone out there has a
solution for me, I would greatly appreciate it. I just need a way to
generate a GUID without triggering "malicious" warnings from Norton (or
other) security products. I realize I can accomplish this by simply
creating an official DLL plugin as opposed to using the JavaScript
method, but I was hoping to avoid that route. If anyone has any other
suggestions, I'm open to them.

I appreciate the fact that you wanted to try my plugin, and I hope I
have assured you enough to give it a second chance. If it would be
helpful to you, I could create a temporary secondary version that does
not generate this type of error message to ease your concerns. This
secondary version should run without generating a "malicious" warning
from Norton, but it may have unexpected results if you ever plan on
running the plugin on multiple machines simultaneously. Let me know if
this would be worthwhile to you. Thanks!