Vistumbler 9.0 Broken Update

[celsmk]

Hi,

The latest Vistumbler 9.0 auto-update causes a fatal error. Please see attached msg.

Celsmk

[ACalcutt]

hmm...weird. I've never seen anything like that...

I would try deleting vistumbler.exe and running update.exe (both in the main vistumbler folder). it looks to me like the vistumbler exe is corrupt. running update.exe will re-download the missing vistumbler.exe

[celsmk]

It doesn´t work. Please, look at attached update screen hardcopy. It seems that the download of vistumbler.exe by update is failing, corrupting vistumbler.exe.

[ACalcutt]

Are you able to download these files. This is what the update is trying to download

http://vistumbler.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... vision=182
http://vistumbler.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... vision=182

[celsmk]

Yes, I can download, at least from home. And repeated the process from home, just a few minutes ago, with no problem.
Maybe it was caused by firewall at work. Will repeat it from there tomorrow.

Tks,

Celsmk

[celsmk]

Looks like the culprit was the firewall at work, which, instead of blocking access to vistumbler.exe, let download it partially, corrupting the file.

Celsmk

[Freebe]

OK. Here is the cause of the Problem.
Antivir is telling me it has a Nasty ( TR/Startpage.dgp )
Antivir is cutting this out or causing it to disapear.

Please take a look at this.

[ACalcutt]

what file?

[Freebe]

@ACalcutt
Its coming in the moment you start the Update.
By me it gave me the update, that was OK. then asked me if i wanted the following update. And Bingo. ( Antivir Alert ) and action.

If you install the second update Antivir will deleat it causing the programm Vistumbler to disapear. ( Main Vistumbler .EXE )

Nasty little bleiter this one.

[ACalcutt]

ugh...i'll look into it. At least the last time I spoke with antivir they where very quick to respond to the false positive

[ACalcutt]

I have sent antivir an email. hopefully this is resolved soon.

one thing i noticed is it seems like only the stable release (9.01) is being detected as a virus. The latest beta (9.1 Beta 2.1) is not being detected.

Here is 9.1 beta 2.1 zipped if you want it. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vistum ... 1_b2_1.zip

[Freebe]

OK. Will try it. let you know if i get Problems
By the way i will make a small Donation next.
It will help in a small way but if you get 1,000,000 small helpers that make life easyer.

[Freebe]

Yes ( The latest beta (9.1 Beta 2.1) is not being detected. ) Can confirm this one is OK. on my Antivir.

[ACalcutt]

Just for your information, i received a response from avira

from Avira GmbH <virus_malware@avira.com>
reply-to Avira GmbH <virus_malware@avira.com>
to acalcutt@vistumbler.net
date Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM
subject (Call #690182) Re: Vistumbler false positive

hide details 8:56 AM (2 hours ago)


Reply


Dear Sir or Madam,


Thank you for your recent inquiry.

We could not find a virus in the attachment you have sent us.
This is a false positive. We will take out the pattern recognition in one of our next updates.

We thank you for your assistance.

Attachment(s) you sent:
VistumblerFilesZipped.zip

[ACalcutt]

OK. Will try it. let you know if i get Problems
By the way i will make a small Donation next.
It will help in a small way but if you get 1,000,000 small helpers that make life easyer.

Donations are always helpful. In the time i've accepted donations i had about 5 people give(around $60 in total). Any little bit helps, since my server cost me about $60/month in electricity and with the new google ads I make about $20/month. So with a $40 monthly loss, donations are much appreciated

[khat10]

Looks like the culprit was the firewall at work, which, instead of blocking access to vistumbler.exe, let download it partially, corrupting the file.

[khat10]

Looks like the culprit was the firewall at work, which, instead of blocking access to vistumbler.exe, let download it partially, corrupting the file.