[jim_lawless]

It's not just Symantec.

I've had issues with multiple AV companies that pertained to binary-string signatures in my code. The AV companies I've dealth with all seem to have online ticketing systems that allowed for rapid correction of these situations.

A few months ago, I found that a command-line screen-capture tool that I publish was flagged as malware by multiple AV products due to behavioral characteristics.

In ScreenKap, I was experimenting with obfuscation of text-strings used by the code. I removed the obfuscation from the code and resubmitted to VirScan.org. I received a clean bill of health.

Note that I did not formally pursue this with any of the AV companies as the string obfuscation was an experiment and was nothing that needed to remain an integral part of my product. If my assumption is correct ( please note that it is an assumption ), we might be restricted to coding in the way the AV companies think we should code.