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frodifrodi Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I cannot download the products from DAZ which have an exe extension. I think that my new antivirus protection (kaspersky) is blocking those. Is DAZ going to change this extension?

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Eventually everything will be in zips, but it'll be awhile. You need to turn off the overeager heuristics Kaspersky is using or turn it off temporarily when downloading and installing.

  • frodifrodi Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for that mike, I installed Kaspersky after a horrendous experience with a virus which installed itself into microsoft security essentials, while this was running and "protecting" my pc. I had been happy with microsofts security, but I suppose it had its soft spot! I was fortunate in that the computer techie managed to save my files and clean the pc. I might give DAZ shop a miss for a while.

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    I have to wonder - maybe someone can explain that to me. Since the change to Magento DAZ keeps talking about how they want to move everything to ZIPs. They say that´t why the downloading page is now so non-user friendly (we cannot hide MAC files as before). But all the new content they are releasing is still in EXE files. Only old products for Gen 3 are in ZIPs. Why don´t they already release new products in ZIPs? I would be less work for them later. This way they are increasing the number of products which they will have to rework later to turn them into ZIPs. Instead of starting to turn newer items (like Gen 4) into ZIP files, they are adding more and more items in EXE files? Where is the logic of this? Is it really so difficult for DAZ to change the way they are packing their products? Even I can make a ZIP file and I am by no means a computer exper.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited September 2012

    It appears that several AV apps have upgraded their heuritiscs to make them react at a paranoid level. I use Avast and it has even tried to tell me that files from Adobe are "suspicious" and also my old MS Office which I have been using for several years with no problems, and which I have on the original MS CD, not as a dowload. :roll:

    At least with Avast I am given a chance to tell Avast that I will trust the files, and go ahead with using them. I checked the Avast forums, and there were quite a few people complaining about the problem, and a good many different sites that were sparking the reactions.

    Post edited by Chohole on
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,990
    edited December 1969

    Kaspersky probably has a Quarantine area from which you can rescue your files and tell it to leave them alone (though to be safe you might want to run a different on-demand scanner over them before running them - Malware Bytes Anti-Malware has a good reputation, and shouldn't conflict with Kaspersky).

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Proxima Shining said:
    I have to wonder - maybe someone can explain that to me. Since the change to Magento DAZ keeps talking about how they want to move everything to ZIPs. They say that´t why the downloading page is now so non-user friendly (we cannot hide MAC files as before). But all the new content they are releasing is still in EXE files. Only old products for Gen 3 are in ZIPs. Why don´t they already release new products in ZIPs? I would be less work for them later. This way they are increasing the number of products which they will have to rework later to turn them into ZIPs. Instead of starting to turn newer items (like Gen 4) into ZIP files, they are adding more and more items in EXE files? Where is the logic of this? Is it really so difficult for DAZ to change the way they are packing their products? Even I can make a ZIP file and I am by no means a computer exper.

    Until the Install Manager is available they are continuing to use installers. Old items have been put into zips because the old Mac installers don't work on current Macs.

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:

    Until the Install Manager is available they are continuing to use installers. Old items have been put into zips because the old Mac installers don't work on current Macs.

    Ah, I see. Thank you for clarification. And it will be "DAZ Soon" as usual, right? :)

    Anyway, since you always seem so knowledgeable, maybe you could advise me concerning installing? Is there any way how to install multiple DAZ EXE installers at once? I bought a lot of content during the DAZ Original Sale (bundles and PC items) but I did not install anything yet (except the most important files, like M5) because that is a truly horrid number of installers, which scares me off. Just downloading them from the site took ages. I also bought some items at Renderosity and they are using ZIPs, so I just selected all of them and unzipped them into the runtime all at once, with a single click of my mouse. Just running only one DAZ installer takes MUCH longer than this! And definitely it cannot be handled with just one mouse-click.

    I wonder how you more experienced long-time DAZ users are doing it? Surely you must sometimes buy more content at once as well. Is there some trick to this which would allow me to do something similar as with the Rendo ZIP items, or must I really run each of those oh-so-many installers I now have separately?

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,908
    edited December 1969

    ClamAV has a simular issue where it detects a safe script that is used by safe installers and viral installers alike. Easiest way around it is always to disable the AV while downloading.

    Personally I have never had a virus from any DAZ installer, content or program.

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    I guess I am happy to just have Microsoft Essentials. I used to have another antivirus software, it ran without problem for months, then they got an update, I installed it and it crashed my computer so severely that it took hours of repairing to even boot the PC. I uninstalled it immediately and then the PC was fine. It was a reputable antivirus software, mind you. So since then I am not so enamoured with any antivirus. If it makes problems with downloads, I just close it for a while, download and that´s it.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited September 2012

    Proxima Shining said:
    fixmypcmike said:

    Until the Install Manager is available they are continuing to use installers. Old items have been put into zips because the old Mac installers don't work on current Macs.

    Ah, I see. Thank you for clarification. And it will be "DAZ Soon" as usual, right? :)

    Anyway, since you always seem so knowledgeable, maybe you could advise me concerning installing? Is there any way how to install multiple DAZ EXE installers at once? I bought a lot of content during the DAZ Original Sale (bundles and PC items) but I did not install anything yet (except the most important files, like M5) because that is a truly horrid number of installers, which scares me off. Just downloading them from the site took ages. I also bought some items at Renderosity and they are using ZIPs, so I just selected all of them and unzipped them into the runtime all at once, with a single click of my mouse. Just running only one DAZ installer takes MUCH longer than this! And definitely it cannot be handled with just one mouse-click.

    I wonder how you more experienced long-time DAZ users are doing it? Surely you must sometimes buy more content at once as well. Is there some trick to this which would allow me to do something similar as with the Rendo ZIP items, or must I really run each of those oh-so-many installers I now have separately?

    You can do it with a batch file -- I can't remember who posted the original version, but my current version looks like this:

    ECHO OFF
CLS
IF not exist inslist.txt goto makelist

:MENU
ECHO.
ECHO ...............................................
ECHO PRESS 1 or 2 to select your task, or 3 to EXIT.
ECHO ...............................................
ECHO.
ECHO 1 - Auto Install to trial2
ECHO 2 - Auto install to trialcontent
ECHO 3 - EXIT
ECHO.
SET /P M=Type 1, 2, or 3, then press ENTER:
IF %M%==1 GOTO Installall
IF %M%==2 GOTO Someinstall
IF %M%==3 GOTO END

:makelist
dir *.exe /b >inslist.txt

GOTO MENU

:Installall
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2* " %%i in (inslist.txt) DO %%i --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal --accept_license yes
 --create_uninstaller no --create_startmenu_shortcuts no --installdir_content "Q:\trial2"


GOTO MENU

:Someinstall
FOR /F "eol=; tokens=1,2* " %%i in (inslist.txt) DO %%i --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal --accept_license yes
 --create_uninstaller no --create_startmenu_shortcuts no --installdir_content "Q:\trialcontent"


GOTO MENU

:END
IF exist inslist.txt goto REMOVE
:REMOVE
del inslist.txt

@Echo   All done...... Exiting!
    Post edited by fixmypcmike on
  • DWGDWG Posts: 770
    edited December 1969

    frodi said:
    I cannot download the products from DAZ which have an exe extension. I think that my new antivirus protection (kaspersky) is blocking those. Is DAZ going to change this extension?

    I'm using Kaspersky 2012 without issue.

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:

    You can do it with a batch file -- I can't remember who posted the original version, but my current version looks like this:

    Wow! That´s very cool. But what should a non-technical person like me do with this? I guess I copy it into Notepad and save it with .... what extension? And then...?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Copy it into notepad and save it with the extension .bat. Edit the install paths to match your system. Then just put the .bat file and the installers in the same folder, and double-click the .bat file

  • Proxima ShiningProxima Shining Posts: 969
    edited December 1969

    Thank you very much'

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