Symantec Endpoint Protection (antivirus) thinks FFS 6.12 is tampering

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whinkle

Just reporting that FFS 6.12 (like 6.11) continues to cause a 'tamper alert' from Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 (the corporate version of their antivirus product):

SYMANTEC TAMPER PROTECTION ALERT

Target: C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\12.1.671.4971.105\Bin\ccSvcHst.exe
Event Info: Open Process
Action Taken: Logged
Actor Process: C:\PROGRAM FILES\FREEFILESYNC\BIN\FREEFILESYNC_WIN32.EXE (PID 273364)
Time: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:51:35 PM

The alert occurs upon every startup of FFS 6.12, immediately.

This under Win-XP SP3, if that's relevant. This alert is not currently interfering with the startup or function of FFS 6.12 on my machine -- probably because I whitelisted the FREEFILESYNC_WIN32.EXE executable in SEP. So FYI.