Okay, 19 hours later we are back in business. Our office is an avast! free
zone now. This was a nightmare.
Friedrich
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Okay, 19 hours later we are back in business. Our office is an avast! free
zone now. This was a nightmare.
Friedrich
> ...Our office an avast! free zone now...
Avast behind <vbg>
Graham
How likely is it that you would recommend avast to a fiend or collegue
?
well by posting all this you _did_ recommend it , no ? <vbg>
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JP
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Tell Chicago how wonderful it is! <seg>
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Russ Eggen
RADFusion International, LLC
"Would you prefer a good game of chess?"
Jeff Slarve
www.jssoftware.com
www.twitter.com/jslarve
I'll search help files & Google for you.
did you say guess or chess Jeff ?
after all it seems avast is a guess if it will pass ....
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JP
__________________________________________________ _____
For those who do not understand ... : "Qui bene amat bene castigat."
__________________________________________________ _____
DMC - Data Management Center : a tool to let you Migrate Import Export
Transfer your Data
www.dmc-fr.com
Friedrich,
> Okay, 19 hours later we are back in business. Our office an avast! free
> zone now. This was a nightmare.
Congratulations! Long labor, was it a girl or a boy?!<g>
Lee White
> "Would you prefer a good game of chess?"
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Regards
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Olivier Cretey
www.clarion.free.fr
Verneuil sur Seine (78), France
Sorry Friedrich not been following this. What are you using now?
John
Hi John,
>
> Sorry Friedrich not been following this. What are you using now?
>
I am using "Symantec Endpoint Protection" now. I have tested it for more
than 9 months on another machine.
Does it work flawlessly? Well, it's a protection software product ("the
devil") so the answer is "No..." <g> But it works.
What happened? Well, after installation, my new Symantec protection was so
smart that it deteced the Windows Genuine Validation component as a
virus/malware (false-positive) and put it into quarantine. As a result,
Windows locked me out from my own computer (main development machine). I
had to call a Microsoft telephone number to re-activate Windows. Did that
work? No, of course not. The Windows validation key was wrong because the
component that generates the key was in quarantine. Catch22. And the best
is, Microsoft told me that I am using pirated software. HUH? I have a MSDN
subscription for ages, so this Windows version is definitely NOT pirated <g>
What did I do to solve this problem? I have learned my lesson and I am
working exclusively in virtual machine environments. I can simply restart
the VM (or restore from the VM backups) and I am back in business. Yeah!
But it took 10+ hours to find out why this damn generated validation key was
wrong. Neither Symantec nor Microsoft had an idea <g>. Just exclude the
Windows Genuine Validation component from real-time scanning and reboot.
Bingo. But you have to do this BEFORE Microsoft and Symantec lock you out.
My suggestion: VMs are your best friend. Drive "C:" is for software, Drive
"D:", "E:", etc. are for data. Never store your data on "C:". Then you are
safe. I have separate virtual drives and can backup my stuff in minutes. I
can even use the same virtual drives on my Dell development machine using
VMWare Workstation and on my high-performance MacBook Pro Retina running
Fusion 7.
Yes, I love VMs. 8 years ago I would have been in serious trouble with
this.
Friedrich