Pywin32-220 Installer "high Risk" File

When I try to install pywin32-220 it will be stopped by Norton saying that it's threat name 'SONAR.Heuristic.132' and a 'High risk file'. It removes the pywin32-220 installer... So

Solution 1:

How can I install Pywin32?

If you trust the suppliers of PyWin32 more than you trust the suppliers of Norton, disable or uninstall your anti-virus and go ahead with installing PyWin32.

I can't make the decision for you which one you trust more, but in my opinion:

• In general anti-virus today simply doesn't work. (It has been arguably been causing more problems than it solved for many years now, but these days it is proving nugatory protection for all the faff.) Signature-based scanning is dead in the face of dynamically-generated files from automated kits; heuristic-based scanning (which is what has flagged here) is rife with false positives for pretty much any executable.

• PyWin32 is hosted on SourceForge, a site that has recently gained some notoriety for packaging installers with unwanted third-party software. I have not seen any evidence that this has happened to PyWin32 at this point, but who knows.

It is deeply unfortunate that you are put in the position of choosing to trust one or another party when they have both proven themselves distinctly untrustworthy in the past. But that's the filthy, stinking state of the Windows software marketplace today.