you are right, if I change the Program Icon, the program runs without protest of the Norton Virus-Guard.
I's very mysterious. is't it?
Not really mysterious. To give you another example when the icon would be taken into account: if the PDF document icon is used as application icon and other flags go red, this could be a trojan posing as a document.
But in this case you probably have a bad case of drunken malware researcher (or comedian
).