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 > > > > > > On 30/11/2021 20:36, Richard Shann wrote: > On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 17:26 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote: > > > 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 > > > 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 > > > >
