Norton Anti Virus on my old Vista machine also doesn't like WLFriend... I
wonder what it is detecting?
Bill
WB6JJJ
On Apr 20, 2013, at 9:44 PM, "Bill Parry" <bparry@rgv.rr.com> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> I would dump AVG and install Microsoft Security Essentials. I have been
> using it on all 3 of my computers on my network and it works very nicely. It
> plays nicely with both Writelog and DXBase. On the one case that it didn't
> handle a virus, I also keep Malwarebytes on the computer to serve as a
> backup. Both are free.
>
> Bill W5VX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary
> AL9A
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:42 PM
> To: Writelog Reflector
> Subject: [WriteLog] WLFriend
>
> A few months back I dumped McAfee anti virus from my machine and went with
> AVG. Everything went pretty smooth except for one glitch. A while after
> installing AVG they updated their virus definitions file and the new
> parameters suddenly thought the WLFriend.exe file was infected with a virus.
> So it thoughtfully deleted the program from my machine without so much as a
> by-your-leave! Subsequent attempts to reinstall the program have been
> thwarted by AVG which still insists it contains a virus. I have used this
> thing for several years and am convinced it doesn't have a virus and have
> finally figured out a way to beat the beast so to speak.
>
> Today I disabled AVG and got WLFriend reinstalled. Then I found where I
> could put an exception into AVG so it would leave it alone in the future.
> It seems to run ok except for one glitch. Whenever I shut it down and then
> restart it I have to right click on the WLFriend window and point it to the
> path where the friend.ini file is located. I seem to remember that this
> only had to be done once in my first installation. Is there a way to make
> the path designation stick?
>
> 73,
> Gary AL9A
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