Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Portable

I don't know why. Sorry experience suggested it. I have seen this behavior  
on 3 different antivirus scanners over the years. All in Windows OS. No  
useful user feedback.  Not even an event registered to event logs.

If you download a lot you might see it in other downloads. I answered a  
similar question in this forum about a month ago. Same thing.

I can see it in theory. The scanner is looking for "tokens" or sequences  
of binary code that are associated with virus / worm executables.  It's  
not improbable that a huge download, using compression, would generate  
enough of similar looking binary string to trigger a false positive.

Why the antivirus scanner doesn't tell you what's happened? Mystery.

I'm glad you got it,
David

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:30:52 -0800, M Robinson <mr.m.robinson@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> That worked. Why does that work?
> I'm using Avast 6.0.1367, and it hasn't thrown any flags while silently
> killing ONLY LibreOffice Portable downloads.
>
> On 12/14/2011 6:14 PM, David S. Crampton wrote:
> > Try to turn off your realtime antivirus scanner. Unload it or stop the
> > process.
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:33:40 -0800, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > M Robinson wrote
> > > >         What's the story with LibreOffice Portable, I've been trying  
> > > > to
> > > > download the file since PortableApps released version 10. It doesn't
> > > > matter which site a attempt to download from I end up with an  
> > > > incomplete
> > > > file of 19.9 MB, the downloads start with a file side of 121 MB.
> > >
> > > That seems to be a problem with the PortableApps mirrors or your  
> > > download
> > > manager.
> > > Try to get LibreOffice separately from
> > > http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable
> > >
> > > In any case you should ask at the PortableApps forum since LibreOffice  
> > > or
> > > TDF can't help you on this problem ;)
> > >
> > > --
> > > View this message in context:
> > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Portable-tp3586506p3586838.html
> > >
> > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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