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   watcher13
   Member

   The team has made a new blog post: the false virus hits that were being attributed to Software Informer were actually caused by updates to the wrapper. This was confirmed yesterday. For example, one of the contributors to Ashraf's blog ran yesterday's software through the Virus Total "mega" scanner site and got no hits. This after the first two days software got identical hits. GOTD says it's scrapping the new wrapper and going back to the drawing board.

   Whew! As others have said, if every software got virus hits confidence would erode REAL fast.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
   Blocked

   Death to addon software and false positives, FTW! That's something the GAOTD team did right. Let's hope they do some careful programming and bring back the diagnostics, but not the addon software.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   watcher13
   Member

   Well, as far as I know, GM (I haven't found anything to download in a while) they didn't drop Software Informer, just went back to an older wrapper. Actually, a Software Informer blog post from a user says that there's now a clearer install selection option, though what I don't know. I wouldn't mind if someone could clarify this. I'm not sure if I want to do a download just to test it.

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   copmom
   Member

   Glad you're mentioning Software Informer because yesterday it popped up for the very first time and had to use task manager to shut it down. Couldn't figure out what it was! Went online to find out, one forum said it couldn't be deleted unless manually. Then noticed in my Start/Programs there it was as well as an uninstall!

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
   Blocked

   Wait... No wonder I didn't see the Software Informer dialog... I had already installed it once, and now the wrapper doesn't ask me anymore. Hmm...

   Posted 14 years ago #

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