Can't install 4.0.6.0 update

[rick.curl]

I have not had any trouble installing previous updates, so I was surprised to see an error when I tried to install this one.  After several of the normal status messages I get "Error 1315.  Unable to write to the specified folder G:\."  The unusual thing about this is that drive G is a secondary SSD from an older computer.  It's only there so I can access some old files.  All my current stuff (including the Positron installation I am currently using) is on drive C.  During the installation process I don't see an option to select another drive doe installation.

What can I do to resolve this?  FYI- operating system is Windows 11 64 bit.

Thanks!

-Rick

[xvovanx]

Hello!
I had no problems installing previous updates, so I was surprised when I saw that the antivirus started complaining about this file Pos8.exe in PDS folder (version 4.0.6.0-1.1.3.0)...

[Frizie]

Have you tried 4.0.6.0-1.1.3.1 instead of 4.0.6.0-1.1.3.0?

[John Lawton]

FYI,

No problems installing the update 4.0.6.0-1.1.3.1

(Using Windows Defender / Win 7)

John

[trastikata]

I have had same issues in the past after Windows updates. Ever since I have to run the updates as administrator, otherwise Windows won't install them. It is a Windows problem.

[rick.curl]

I have had same issues in the past after Windows updates. Ever since I have to run the updates as administrator, otherwise Windows won't install them. It is a Windows problem.

You are absolutely right.  I had forgotten about that.  Running as administrator solved the problem.

Thank you!!

-Rick

[ricardourio]

Even as administrator 4.0.6.0 - 1.1.3.1 is not installing. No problems with 1.1.3.0.

Ricardo Urio

[trastikata]

Even as administrator 4.0.6.0 - 1.1.3.1 is not installing. No problems with 1.1.3.0.

If you are installing it from the Download folder, you have to move it to another location first ... happened to me with other programs too, again Windows.

[Maxi]

The antivirus program is giving an error during installation;
perhaps it is blocking some files?
I have Norton installed.

[xvovanx]

Kaspersky Anti-Virus also complains about both the installer itself and the program files  4.0.6.0 - 1.1.3.1

[trastikata]

No issues with the built-in Defender.

Other programs give too many false positives.

[RGV250]

Hi,
I used to have a problem with Norton but it has been fine for quite a while now. Downloaded and installed 4.0.6.1 without issue with Norton 360.

Bob

[Stephen Moss]

If you are installing it from the Download folder, you have to move it to another location first ... happened to me with other programs too, again Windows.

I just downloaded adn installed from my Download folderand it was fine, but that may be because I have an admin account.
If it was fine until a certain Windows update, seomtime the instaltion goes wrong (corrupted download?), I usually find that unistalling updates backto when it was good and then reinstalling updatres generally fixes it. If that does not work an FSC scan can sometimes resolve things when Windows appear to be acting up.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus also complains about both the installer itself and the program files  4.0.6.0 - 1.1.3.1

I have Kasperky Total security and had no problems, I had a quick look and could not see that I had made any exceptions for it, maybe the dowload was bad and the corrupted data looked suspicious to it.

[xvovanx]

4.0.6.1 Kaspersky Internet Security still complains (adware!)

[trastikata]

4.0.6.1 Kaspersky Internet Security still complains (adware!)

If you try VirusTotal you'd notice it is only Kaspersky complaining and it is the heuristic analysis that complains for something that might look like adware .... basically means nothing.

[top204]

There is no adware or trojans or viruses in the compilers. They are scanned with two checkers and the compilers are written on a virtual machine that has no access to any internet, and the installer is also created on a machine with no internet.

This type of thing often happens with updates or upgrades, and it is the virus checkers taking a "best guess" at a sequence of values in a file, and just scare people. As I have said many times before, the virus and trojan checkers these days are actually worse than most viruses. They take over a machine and scare people and remove files for very little reason, other than a "I think this is might be something, but I am not sure, so I'll get rid of it anyway", type of mechanism, that can actually make harmless programs useless on the machine because files have either been deleted or quarantined without any warnings.

[Stephen Moss]

What a differnce a couple of days can make...
It seem that if all Kaspersky is doing in not letting you install updates you are lucky. Tonight it has gone bat crap crazy and keeps saying the Loader, Pos8.exe and ProtonIDE.exe are all adware files and deleting them without even asking! And not just the installed files in the Program File(x86)\ProtonIDE folder but the installation files stored in my DropBox as well. As soon as I restore them from within Kaspersky it immediately re-scans them and deletes them again.

I had to pause Kasperksy and add the folders I store the installs in, the folder Positron installs to and for good measure (as they should be covered by the folder exclusions the Loader, Pos8.exe and ProtonIDE.exe and Pos16.exe (even though it had not complained about that yet) as separate exclusions. Which seems to have stopped it misbehaving for now.