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Hey, Welshjim.........is a backup supposed to be automatically created?
Don't have one myself.....?!
The 10-17 reflist is still available at Lavasoft...at the 2 mirror sites.
Too late for me, though.
[This message has been edited by discogail (edited 10-28-2001).]
discogail--I think the backup is created only if you use Refupdate.exe (rather than downloading and installing the new reflist manually) and configure Refupdate to create the backup.
Here is the first part of the instructions for Refupdate.
"Before using this utility the first time, please
open the options-menu, and specify the destination directory
in which the files will be downloaded.
This should be the same folder, Ad-aware is using for the referencefile.
By default this will be Ad-aware installation directory.
Note:It is recommended to check the backup option too."
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Jim
ahaha! - the penny just dropped over here...Quote:
Originally posted by Welshjim:
Those of you who ran RefUpdate to get the new reflist.sig will have created a backup of the 10/17 version at the same time, reflist.bak. You can name the 10/17 reflist back to reflist.sig (and the 10/28 version to something else) and go back to the 10/17 version while you wait to hear what to do about the 10/28 reflist.
been trying to open .sig and .bak thinking that was necessary in order to follow these directions...
finally, I just looked at the dates of the 2 files...then it all came together... https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
maybe what you're sugesting we do is par for the course for some, but to me it seams pretty heads-up, Welshjim...
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^dAvEy^
^dAvEy^ and AAPlus--Always good to hear that a suggestion was helpful. Thanks for posting back!!
Now I hope to hear from one of you (hint to Renovator) when we can use the new reflist!!
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Jim
[This message has been edited by Welshjim (edited 10-28-2001).]
so, this is what I did, Welshjim...
how's this sound...
reflist.sig 10/28 file renamed...
reflist10-28.sig
reflist.bak 10/17 file renamed...
reflist.sig
opened notepad and created (and left empty) a file named...
reflist.bak
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^dAvEy^
[This message has been edited by ^dAvEy^ (edited 10-28-2001).]
From my travels :
It appears that the new reflist reports all BHOs as targets
Backing it up and restoring it doesn't work . You can export the reg key to a .reg file and merge it back in later if you need to. The Lavasoft people do know about this. There's an enormous thread at grc.spyware newsgroup about this too.
Hey, welshjim
Your suggestion was more then
helpful & i say again
Thanks
What is BHO?
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Specs IE 5.5 sp2, win98 first edition, AVG 6.0, Sygate 4.1, Adaware 5.62, 366mghtz pent 2, 3.4 gig Maxtor HD, 188 mb ram, mother board unknown, What else do i need to know?
Once again GoBack proves its worth!
BHO is short for Browser Helper Objects..usually add-ins or plugins for IE or Netscape..like the Alexa plugin here...or Yahoo Companion..etc.
Many are helpful...and not harmful....and some are spyware.
[This message has been edited by discogail (edited 10-28-2001).]
Thank you. I dont know all the terminology but am learning thanks to forums like this one. Before i read not to run ad aware with the new signature file, I did, didn't find any spyware, so I guess I didn't do any damage.
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Specs IE 5.5 sp2, win98 first edition, AVG 6.0, Sygate 4.1, Adaware 5.62, 366mghtz pent 2, 3.4 gig Maxtor HD, 188 mb ram, mother board unknown, What else do i need to know?
Until I hear the official word...
I have the link on this page , pointing back to the reflist of 10/17/01.
In case anyone wanted the old version to go back to.
I had posted the keys effected, earlier in Mowerguns Alexa thread.
^dAvEy^--You do not need the reflist.bak file that you created. When a new reflist is available, and you use RefUpdate to install it, the replaced reflist.sig will become reflist.bak and the new reflist will become reflist.sig, all automatically.
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Jim
cheers, JIm dude http://grc.com/shifty.gif
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^dAvEy^
Jim,
Just adding my thanks for your very helpful hint. I changed extension of the 17/10 .bak file to .sig as you suggested and the 28/10 .sig to .old.