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Old 08-10-2008, 09:31 PM
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Update fails; PPCGeeks_OEM.rar treated as trojan

I've tried a lot of things to get this to work including complete uninstalls and reinstalls accompanied by deleting the leftover install directory and the temp directory into which the updater downloads its files.

I run the updater and ask it to install the PPCGeeks_OEM.rar, Generic_OEM.rar, 000_Shareware.rar, and Apache_Helmi_WM6.1.rar. After the download completes, it starts installing the files and then aborts saying the PPCGeeks_OEM.rar is missing.

In debugging this a bit, I discovered that if I examine the contents of the temp directory where the files get placed, I can watch the PPCGeeks_OEM.rar file get downloaded, but it is immediately deleted. The other files get d/l'ed and they persist.

I have the corporate version of McAfee running on this machine and I just looked at the quarantine log and find that there are numerous entries corresponding to my runs of the updater indicating that a trojan was quarantined.

Since the McAfee is controlled by corporate IT, it cannot be turned off. I don't believe I'd want to do that anyway until it could be proven to me that the .rar file doesn't contain some sort of trojan.

Anyone else seen this?
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