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Re: Need current copy of Gibson's TIP program
de Achim Nolcken Lohse 06/25/2006 10:19
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:35:45 -0400, Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid>
wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:56:50 GMT, lohsea@3web.nettax (Achim Nolcken
>Lohse) wrote:
>
>>I don't have any real-time protection software, and I downloaded the
>>exe program twice yesterday, once from each of the two sites offered,
>>without problems. So... the mystery remains. Probably just sloppy
>>website management - undocumented browser requirements without any
>>warning messages or alternative pages.
>
>Nothing to do with the browsers - I downloaded the file with IE,
>Firefox and, out of curiosity, a "browser" I wrote quickly so I could
>see the actual data flow back and forth. What DIDN'T work was a
>couple of download managers. The link isn't to a downloadable file,
>it's to an invisible page that autosends the file to you - causing
>your browser - if you don't have a download manager screwing things up
>- to do what it's set to do with exe files, which is normally to
>download them.
Well, I just disabled browser integration on Star Downloader, and also
unchecked "read URL's from clipboard" . There aren't any options left
to disable.
Then I went to www.grc.com/freepopular.htm, and clicked on the
download button next to Trouble in Paradise, and chose the "save to
disk option". Exactly what I've been describing happened, IE appears
to be downloading the file, showing some variable download speed,
sometimes witha a progress bar and/or KBs downloaded, but in all
cases, never completes the download, and (unlike with real aborted
downloads), there's not even a truncated file called tip.exe in my
target folder.
So - what has this to do with Star Downloader. How has it stopped IE
from downloading TIP.EXE, and why didn't it stop it from downloading
sb.zip, or the pdf file from the same page?
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Achim
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