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Offline larrymcg

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2011, 02:04:11 AM »
dustygold,

It doesn't affect my Norton Ghost 10.  Probably lots of changes between versions 10 and 12 of Ghost.

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2011, 06:23:55 AM »
This is also happening to me with SUMO (a program that helps you keep your soft up to date) on winXP 64. On win7-64 it works just fine.
I must say, though, that I DO see sf.bin opening and closing several times a minute while SUMO is running. All other progs work fine.
It worked fine before...

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2011, 12:15:54 AM »
any clues as to this sf.bin issue?
It's not only that sf.bin opens and closes continously, but that it slows down the PC to a crawl while it's happening.
« Last Edit: July 17, 2011, 02:18:21 AM by jvidal »

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2011, 02:05:33 AM »
I also noticed that the Sandbox options are missing from the "additional protection" tab, only Webrep and URL Blocking.
So, no way to change the sandbox options. I suspect sf.bin is related to Sandboxing.
What is wrong here?
I even un-installed avast and re-installed b1023, to no avail.

any ideas?

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2011, 08:48:15 PM »
We found the problem - you can patch avast (see here) or wait for next program update
Thanks!

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2011, 10:38:36 PM »
Thanx a lot!!!!

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #21 on: July 17, 2011, 10:54:04 PM »
Oops, patch didn't work at all.
1) the files contained in the patch zip file didn't replace any files on \windows\system32\drivers) (the files aswndis2.sys and aswndis2.sys.sum didn't exist in \windows\system32\drivers).

2) I see no change in behaviour: sf.bin continues opening and closing and the autosandbox options are completely missing from the additional protection tab).

In short: nothing changed.

too bad...

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #22 on: July 17, 2011, 10:58:42 PM »
@jvidal, those patches are only for PerfectDisk/Norton Ghost/Retrospect apps -- you have a problem with sf.bin

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #23 on: July 17, 2011, 11:07:50 PM »
What can I do about that?
Uninstalling avast makes SUMO work ok again.
And SUMO worked fine with prev. versions of avast...

What can I do?

bye!

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #24 on: July 17, 2011, 11:10:21 PM »
What can I do about that?
Uninstalling avast makes SUMO work ok again.
And SUMO worked fine with prev. versions of avast...

What can I do?

bye!

I'll test it and let you know...

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #25 on: July 18, 2011, 12:03:18 AM »
The patch did not fix anything on my WinXP system w.r.t.Retrospect.
The two files in the download did not exist anywhere on my system until I got them from the download.

The instructions say to disable avast's self-protection.  I wasn't sure what that was referring to so I disabled all the real-time shields and the Self-defense module.  None of these things is called "self-protection".

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2011, 12:47:00 AM »
From the avastUI, Settings, Troubleshooting, there you can disable the self-defence module.
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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2011, 01:48:52 AM »
DavidR, 
As I said in my post, that's what I did (in addition to disabling the real-time shields).

Anyone getting a good result with the patch?

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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #28 on: July 18, 2011, 02:15:19 AM »
Isn't aswndis2 the Avast! firewall ? Is this applicable to the free version ?
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Re: Retrospect 6.5 not working with update to Avast! 6.0.1203
« Reply #29 on: July 18, 2011, 03:45:44 AM »

I'll test it and let you know...

Thanks, I'll wait for the good news.
Strangely enough, though, everything seems fine under w7-64.