M Henri Day wrote:
2010/2/27 Thomas Blasejewicz <[email protected]>
M Henri Day さんは書きました:
2010/2/27 Thomas Blasejewicz <[email protected]>
Recently I installed OO32 on both my Windows machines (plus a Linux
machine).
Under Windows I have VirusBuster running.
In more or less regular intervals a little window opens in the right
lower corner of the screen, telling me (since I am running a Japanese
system, the message is in Japanese) that something called "soffice.bin"
is trying to access the system files and VirusBuster has blocked that
attempt.
And: VirusBuster marks this event as "highly dangerous".
This did NOT happen with what I used before: OOo2.3.
What is this all about?
IS OO32 actually dangerous?
What is this "soffice.bin" trying to do?
In other words ... what am I supposed to do about it?
Thank you.
Thomas
Thomas, there seem to be several different programmes which call
themselves
«VirusBuster», one a rogue anti-spyware programme (
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yg4k34 ), and the other a presumably
legitimate
AV-protection. If it's the latter you have, can't it be configured to
recognise «soffice.bin», which I understand to be the OOo quick starter
programme ?...
頑張って !
Henri
Thank you Henri
VirusBuster is a commercial product by TrendMicro and which I purchased in
a respectable shop. It should be both legitimate and probably also well
functioning.
Your comment referring to the quick starter makes sense and I tried (with a
little luck also succeeded) in setting permission for it in VirusBuster.
(I will let you know, when this has solved the problem.)
Other comments referring to "crappy ..." unfortunately have been much less
helpful.
Let us know if the problem persists ! As to comments on the quality of the
AV and the OS, consider that *quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus*....
Henri
First, if your Anti-virus/security system is telling you that
soffice.bin could be a problem with your system, then run a scan on the
system and see if there has been some "nasty stuff" infecting the OOo
files. Heal them, it there are any. Then, if it still gives you the
"problem error", I would check to see if you can tell your security
system that soffice.bin is an "OK" program to use. Your system may be
hypersensitive on what should, or not, be allowed to run. That can be
good, though it can also be a hassle. Since soffice.bin is a backbone
part of OOo, it needs to be allowed to run. This file/program has been
a part of OOo as long as I remember. So if your security is now
flagging it, when it did not in earlier versions, then there may be
either some new features that is a part of soffice.bin that your system
wants to flag so you can decide if you really want to allow it access to
your system, or somehow you got a copy that somehow got infected by a
"nasty" bit of coding. If you downloaded the original 3.2 version from
the OOo official web site and virus scanned it as soon as you downloaded
it, along with keeping your own system clean, you should not have to
worry about the soffice.bin file at all. But it does not hurt to
recheck it for "nasty surprises".
What language[s] are you using as your default in OOo; Japanese? English?
What versions of Windows and Linux are you using?
If you want to try a different anti-virus system, then I would suggest AVG.
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download?prd=afe
It has many regional language options on the site, including Japan
"region". So you have the choice of what language you will be most
comfortable with. AVG is free, but they do have a paid version that
includes a firewall and other options. I use the free version since late
Win 98 days. I currently have it on Vista and evaluating it on a
Ubuntu/Linux system. I find it works the best for my Windows system[s],
with my security needs. I deal with a lot of people who do not keep
their systems clean and then email me infected file attachments. But,
AVG will not allow any of these infections to stay on my system[s]. You
might want to give it a try.
The "crappy OS comment" is a problem. Yes if you do not like the OS and
you use one you really like, then the first OS is "crappy". While
others may thing the one you use is the crappy one. Windows can be
easier than Linux in many cases, while Linux is much more stable at
times. I now use Ubuntu on all but one Vista laptop, since there are
still software I must use and support in the Windows environment. I
hate Vista, but needed it for the updated software I needed to use.
Soon I will be upgrading it to Win 7. As long as I cannot get
everything I need on Linux, then I must have one Windows system. There
are too many devices that require their "special software" to run while
using their USB and other plug-in hardware. Otherwise, I find that the
free stuff that can be used on Ubuntu/Linux is as good and sometimes
even better than the paid versions you can find for Windows. With
open-source software like OpenOffice.org, you can use Windows and Linux
versions of the same software without needing to change software
title[s] you are using.
So,
Try and scan your system completely with the latest virus database.
Heal any problems. Then if your system warns about soffice.bin, see if
you can have your security allow using it in some software exception list.
Use whatever OS you want and most comfortable with. If you like it,
then that is all that matters to you.
Also, keep letting this email forum know about any problems you might
encounter. If the developers do not know there is any problems, then
how are they to fix them?
[
Been working on/with computers since they were no smaller than a
refrigerator and graphical user interface was still a dream for most
users. Seen/Used many bad systems and many good.
]
