This is making me horny.TJ: anyone any idea why my downloads are automatically deleted the moment they're complete? I'm trying to download GIMP, but it just keeps getting deleted the moment it's finished.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:04,
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are you using firefox, or the effed up new ie9?
PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:05,
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I've got both. Tried it with both.It starts it, puts the nice GIMP setup.exe in my downloads folder, then, once complete, it disappears ...
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:08,
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sounds to me like your antivirus is registering a 'false positive' and silently deleting it.try disabling your protection temporarily and redownload
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:10,
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That doesn't sound the least bit dangerouswere that the case, wouldn't the antivirus program log the fact in a manner which he could look up?
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RedHouse over yonder,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:14,
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yes it shouldthere are also websites which check your file against 40 or more antivirus signature databases -- like virustotal.com which will
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:20,
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I'm not sure about how wise that would be.It looks like it's some sort of setting that I need to switch off.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:18,
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look at my reply to redhouse. I run in to such things periodically on the job. a 'smart firewall' product called sonicwall is notorious for finding 'viruses' in HP print driver packages -- blocking the download
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:21,
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Unwise? Unless you're surfing the back end of the internet while you're downloading you'll be fine.
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Mu Dinofiddler,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:40,
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/links
Van Da Graph is sufferng wth an intermttent 'i' key,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:52,
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no.Many antivirus prodcts have been known to have an occasional burp like that. It's a very tricky game, the whole antivirus/antimalware industry
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:43,
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I mean any antivirus which silently deletes anything you explictitly download.That's just not smart. False positives I understand.
( Mu Dinofiddler,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:45,
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Most will let you know -- unless it is on a company PC where the Admins like to set things up in such a way as to minimise phone calls to tech supportI have a PC here at the house which I have configured Avast to silently move things to the 'chest'. I am not worried about false positive removals crippling my system since that system does a full backup at 03:00 daily.
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 18:09,
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System restores, or backup of critical files? Screw system restores fucking with your storage, reformat the thing and be damned.
( Mu Dinofiddler,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 18:17,
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full disk bare metal recovery capabilityi dont fuck around :D
( PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 19:08,
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Does your total remaining space go down once it's downloaded?
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Mu Dinofiddler,
Sun 26 Feb 2012, 17:38,
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