Opened 15 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#56 assigned enhancement

Display a better error message if an AV package has deleted an executable file

Reported by: Brian Smith Owned by: Brian Smith
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Installer Version: all
Severity: normal Keywords: windows installer utilities
Cc:

Description

Sometimes an Anti-Virus package will mistakenly detect a problem in one or more of the executable files (*.exe or *.dll) shipped with the Windows version of POPFile. The NSIS-based programs should display a more meaningful error message than, for example, runpopfile.exe's rather cryptic "Error: Compatible version of POPFile not found!" which will appear if popfile.exe has been deleted by an AV package.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Brian Smith, 15 years ago

Status: newassigned

The PFI Diagnostic utility should also be updated to check for the six basic popfile*.exe files and report any missing files (in both reports?)

comment:2 by Brian Smith, 15 years ago

The PFI Diagnostic utility should also be updated to check for the six basic popfile*.exe files and report any missing files (in both reports?)

The initial implementation will only perform these checks when a FULL report is generated.

comment:3 by Brian Smith, 15 years ago

The initial implementation will only perform these checks when a FULL report is generated

I decided to make the diagnostic utility always report how many of the *.exe files it finds. See [3180] for details of the code changes made to the utility.

comment:4 by Brian Smith, 15 years ago

Also need to consider the case where the referenced drive is not available and issue a suitable message instead of just complaining that the file cannot be found. See message:216 for an example of this problem.

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