[WT-support] Help - Lost my Win-Test

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

As just posted recently<http://www.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2009-October/078569.html>,
Norton AntiVirus 10 is now (incorrectly I assume) flagging WT.EXE as a
Trojan Horse or Virus, and that is the root cause of all the issues.

First re-install Win-Test 4.1 (do NOT install 4.0.1 has it has a very bad
bug that can cause you to lose your log files).  This is the file you want:

http://download.win-test.com/v4/bin/wt-4.1.0.exe

During update, Norton may insist that WT.EXE is a virus.  Select "Ignore".
The installer may still have trouble because the old WT.EXE is locked.  In
that case you will have to install to a different directory like C:\Program
Files\WT4 instead of C:\Program Files\Win-Test.  Norton may find and flag
WT.EXE as a virus later anyway.

Then download

http://download.win-test.com/v4/nightly/wt_dev.zip

and unzip it to your Win-Test installation directory (C:\Program
Files\WT4\).  This will create wt_dev.exe, which Norton does *not* flag as a
virus.

Then change your Win-Test icon or create another one so that it runs
WT_DEV.EXE instead of WT.EXE.  Just right click on the Win-Test Icon and
select Properties and change the "Target" to *"C:\Program
Files\WT4\wt_dev.exe"* (*with* the quotes).

If you removed all traces of Win-Test from your computer, you will need to
re-enter your registration code via Help | Register Software to get out of
demo mode.

wt_dev.exe is version 4.2 "development beta" - so it may have new bugs.  If
you prefer to run 4.1, you'll have to disable Norton AntiVirus on your
computer.

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Joe Dubeck <NA9A at comcast.net> wrote:

>  I’m using Vista-Ultimate, and I turned off Norton’s firewall through this
> exercise.
>
>
>
> After enjoying the trial version of Win-Test, I purchased the registered
> version a month ago, and used it often without any difficulties.  But then
> yesterday, I tried to run it and the application had disappeared.  The Vista
> Start Menu icon for Win-Test had reverted to a generic icon although
> WtDxTelnet and WtRotator were still OK.  (Maybe this was caused by last
> week’s running of several anti- malware programs to get rid of the Google
> Redirector virus?)
>
>
>
> Next I tried to download version 4.0.1 from the web site, (I had to enter
> my registration code at some point) and Win-Test opened perfectly with all
> of the settings I had used previously.  However,  when I exited it, I
> couldn’t later open it because again the application had disappeared.
>
>
>
> In desperation, I deleted each and every reference to Win-Test on my
> computer, including anything “win-test” in the registry.  That allowed me to
> download and run the demo version, but then when I tried to again  download
> the registered version 4.0.1, the Wizard seemed to work, but apparently
> didn’t because only the demo version was still on my computer.  Oddly, this
> last time I downloaded it, I didn’t have to enter my registration code
> anywhere, which might be part of the problem.
>
>
>
> When 4.0.1 was installing itself, I did get several error messages, the
> first being that an error had occurred when trying to rename a file in the
> destination directory: [MoveFile failed; Code2], which I had to click
> “ignore” to continue, and later a Vista dialog questioning about whether or
> not the program was installed correctly due to a possible compatibility
> issue.
>
>
>
> Any advice will be appreciated – before I pull out what little hair I have
> left!
>
>
>
> Thanks, Joe, NA9A
>
>
>
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