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.robin...@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 <pedl...@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. >>>> > -- GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). Extensible, customizable text editor---GNU Emacs; Where's yours? -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
