9/19/2023 0 Comments Realplayer virus![]() ![]() I should probably just load my copy of Microsoft Office, and not bother with unreliable freeware. An installer that does not install a dll that is needed by the software it is installing is clearly going to create problems not inconsistent with those normally associated with a virus in terms of unexpected software lock-ups and loss of data in files that one is creating. I referenced viral behavior, because making a major software program crash to inconvenience a user is precisely what a virus will do. It has repeatedly crashed when I attempted to use it. I downloaded OpenOffice 3.3, and it never installed the dll I referenced in my original post, above. I presume that those who praise OpenOffice as a competitor of Microsoft Office are disinclined to check the OS details associated with its installation. to download a file, only to find that it is too flawed even in a fresh install to confidently use on my system, forcing me to immediately de-install the software.) I hate the long trip in the severe heat that is coming on fast in the middle U.S. Please contact me if the serious problem referenced here is ever fixed in a new, OpenOffice installation file. I'm sure there are many who may find no problem running the software with these problems (or, perhaps they do, and simply count the problem as typical of their "defective" computer or "bad" Windows installation, without considering alternatives). Users should not have to wade through the steps of locating a clean and appropriate version of a particular dll, downloading it, confirming that it is not openly viral, then installing it, and hoping that it works with OpenOffice, and that it was not re-written with a few extra lines of code to produce some new C++ class that is the only one that OpenOffice can employ. When someone produces a product for mass market use, one would normally expect it to install itself properly, and to include every library with which it needs to link. Why are these programs being widely distributed with built-in bugs that go overlooked that might "cause the program to run inappropriately or not at all". ![]() I had the same problem with RealPlayer with a similar sounding dll, msvcp90.dll. I de-installed OpenOffice because of the potentially viral effect of this bug. If it is using the dll, and if OpenOffice references it in Windows house of cards, it should be absolutely certain that it is properly installed before it builds a bomb into someone's previously very stable computer system, like a virus wrapped in a lolly-pop.) ![]() (After all, if OpenOffice is not using the dll, it should not install or reference the dll. Apparently, that dll was not installed with OpenOffice, and no one bothered to remove the call to it from the code that is calling it if it isn't needed. Someone had written code that would install OpenOffice without what appears to be a dll (msvcr90.dll) that is required and referenced by virtually all of the major software applications that OpenOffice provides. I found the OpenOffice, in a recent, fresh install of the new version, had introduced precisely this kind of error, according to Symantec. ![]() In terms of their effect, these lock-ups are no different than the goals of software written with the open intent to function as a virus. I tested my Windows XP with the code expertly written by Symantec and WinDoctor to insure that my computer would not evidence those odd lock-ups that can force an unexpected need to re-boot, damaging stored data, and potentially trashing the computer system, after I first installed OpenOffice 3.3 today. ![]()
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