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Offline Para-Noid

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Software Updater? or Software Defender?
« on: December 20, 2016, 08:09:51 PM »
Ran SU/SD and another window opened...with a blank screen.

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Re: Software Updater? or Software Defender?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2016, 09:58:14 PM »
Looks like an add gone wrong, e.g. no associated data being retrieved.

I have see something offering the automatic update (only in paid versions), but from memory the data that should have been displayed was the list of software being monitored. What I don't know is if that might have changed in the Beta version that you are using.
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Re: Software Updater? or Software Defender?
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2016, 12:49:03 AM »
Like David said : most likely an advertisement for Avast Premier gone wrong in this Beta.

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Re: Software Updater? or Software Defender?
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2016, 11:52:28 AM »
Hi, it's not empty, just old content was returned from server. Will be fixed soon.

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Re: Software Updater? or Software Defender?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2016, 05:41:23 PM »
@ lagin  Thanks.

The SD screen did open but another separate window opened also.
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