Re: 17 & 20 November Downloads

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 07:34 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
>  Hi Again on this
>  The remaining problem is that whenever it tries to Typeset I get a
> popup which must be closed.
This is because you still have instrumentation turned on via "x" in the
graphics editor field. Delete that.
I have removed the instrumentation in this morning's build.
Richard


>  Which isn't a disaster with Typesetting but makes adding text
> unusable: every key stroke produces a new popup! See below.
>  There is also a popup when denemo starts (also below)
>  Best wishes
>  Joe
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> On 30/11/2021 20:36, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 17:26 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
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> >  Hi Richard.
> >  the file is gspawn-win32-helper.exe
> >  My diagnosis is that when unzipping with Windows Extract, McAfee
> > kicks in and finds a problem with the recent versions of the file.
> > When I WindowsExtrtacted the Nov30 download (I usually use 7zip as
> > it
> > is MUCH faster) I got an error message that I had been protected
> > from
> > an (unspecified) file. And denemo provided me with the familiar
> > reports about Typesetting. 
> >  So I looked in the McAfee "History" and found that it didn't like
> > gspawn-win32-helper.exe and had protected me several times from it!
> >  
> >  The official Windows denemo 2.5 download, treated in the same way
> > did not upset McAfee. 
> >  So I tried copying gspawn-win32-helper.exe from the working
> > version
> > into the bin folder of the faulty Nov30 and it just copied it in -
> > no
> > messages. Trying to copy in a second version flagged up that there
> > was already a copy in bin. Therefore McAfee had registered it as
> > dangerous and simply not copied it over. And it has been deleted
> > from
> > several of the other non-typesetting versions.
> >  
> >  My assumption is that using 7Zip skips past McAfee, BUT when I try
> > to run denemo McAfee kicks in and deletes the gspawn-win32-helper
> > as
> > it is missing in all the versions that don't typeset. BUT the
> > deletion isn't reported. 
> >  SO there must be something different in the most recent versions
> Indeed there is, because although compiled from the same source code
> the compiler is a more recent version and will generate different
> sequences of bytes, which give >150Mb of them results in accidental
> matches with virus "signatures".
> [...]I
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> > have a work-round if I want a more up to date version than Oct
> > 30/Denemo 2.5 - just overwrite gspawn-win32-helper.exe.
> yes, or get a better virus checker - I notice that on installing the
> operating system from Microsoft directly it does its own checking (it
> says) and doesn't suggest installing third party software to check
> for
> viruses...
> 
> Richard
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