Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Portable

Hi :)
Sorry about my last post!  I'm just updating the antivirus on a handful of machines here.  A 
pointless and futile task imo.  I could be down the pub watching a band.  

Has anyone written to Avast to let them know they have another false-positive?
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 15/12/11, M Robinson <mr.m.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

From: M Robinson <mr.m.robinson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Portable
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 0:26

It is a first for me, I download OS's and other large files regularly.

Thanks, again.

On 12/14/2011 7:03 PM, David S. Crampton wrote:
> 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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