Strange lockup bug after updating

[mzk]

I deinstalled V9.x something and installed 9.50.
Got new key etc. rebooted some times.

Now if I click on any Archive and select “unpack”
or something, or even when I try to start pa.exe
directly over the start menu, explorer.exe goes
up to 99% simply locking the whole pc as long Pa.exe
is running. It seems the explorer calling code is
going mad somewhere …

I uninstalled 9.50 several times and reinstalled it, but
no avail. I went back to 9.x because of this strange
buggy…

WinXP2 with all actual fixes. No explorer plugins except
tortoiseSVN.

Im puzzled :confused:

+mzk

[TBGBe]

That is strange.
Do you have AntiVirus that could be conflicting with PA?
Maybe exclude PA directory from RunTime checking or whatever the option is.

[mzk]

That hit the spot - somehow.

I found out, that f-prot needs about 20secs cpuload
to scan trough powerarchiver.exe (all other files,
even much larger exe up to 20mb it flys over in a sec).

Then I updated the .exe of f-prot to the newest version
(16c from 16a) this delay got down of about 1/3 of the
old version time.

Im puzzled, because I run fprot for 3 years now and thisis the first time the realtimeprotector chokes on a file :rolleyes: It’s on all time and does a very good job.

Unfortunately, there is no way to turn off protections
for certain files/dirs in f-prot now as written in the
faq:

http://www.f-prot.com/support/windows/fpwin_faq/31.html

Since f-prot makes updates nearly every day to their signature files, I would make sense to send them the powerarchiver.exe so they can investigate the problem.

Since the delay is bugging but “acceptable” for now, I will live with it and report any factfindings/update from f-prot to this thread for further reference.

+mzk

[ivan]

Thanks!

We are using some compression/encryption on our EXE file in 9.5, but so far we haven’t found any problems with most anti-virus programs, so please inform us when you get any reply from F-PROT support.

[mzk]

For the record:

I uploaded teh PA.exe to F-Prot and they send me
a nice mail that they looking into it (31. Oct 05)

With the update of today (03. November 2005)
(which seemed to be a little larger than usual)
the timeout/locking of the machine handling archives
was complete gone. If I click on a zip or want to
unpack it, it runs like it should on my A64 :p

Cased closed.

-mzk

[spwolf]

thats pretty and fast from f-prot, kudos to them!