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AVG anti-virus causing stuck file transfers
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 Michael Goetz  Volunteer moderator
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I just discovered that the random but infrequent stuck file transfers I've been seeing over the past month or so are being caused by AVG anti-virus's identity theft protection.
It's likely some kind of bug in AVG. The executables are certainly not infected.
If you use AVG, I *strongly* recommend configuring AVG to ignore the C:\ProgramData\BOINC folder, and also disable identify protection. You can't tell the identity protection system to ignore a folder, so you have to completely disable it.
Or switch to a different anti-virus product.
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Someone with information on the problem files can point the problem out to AVG and they will fix their SW.
http://www.avg.com/submit-sample
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Which files are affected?
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Which files are affected?
I've seen it happen on at least two different (very different) files, so I think it's more of a bug than any particular file. It also happens only once in a while, despite the exact same files being used for every LLR task.
The two files I've seen it happen on are the current LLR wrapper and 64 bit LLR client.
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Which files are affected?
I was trying to get more files on one of my pc's, it crunches the PPS (Sieve) v1.40 (atiPPSsieve) files, and I too run the free version of AVG and it too had a stuck file. I ended up moving the pc to a different project. That was just before you guys went down so I just figured it was all related, now I am rethinking that. | |
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I also had AVG preventing the download of the llr wrapper. Had to suspend AVG in order to download the file. Once I did, everything worked as usual. | |
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I can confirm, KAV also causes file transfer problems, and not only executables, but big sieve files also.
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I also had AVG preventing the download of the llr wrapper. Had to suspend AVG in order to download the file. Once I did, everything worked as usual.
Thanks I retired connecting, after briefly suspending AVG, and it worked just fine. | |
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