RegDefend Update...

Regdefend 2.001 just did an update right now and force to reboot. I noticed it clearned my user options and I see no change from the update. Kav 2006 beta caught the update as a virus mailer, which probably is false. Anyways, what did this update change?

dja2k

 

RegDefend v2.001 was released a few weeks ago, so it isn't quite "new". It fixed a few bugs, no major changes.

 

Thats not what I meant. I already had the newest RD 2.001 as of then. Today late afternoon, I got a popup saying there was an update and so I did it and rebooted. I didn't see any change after reboot only that my costum rules were erased. Also the fact that Kav 2006 caught the update as a virus mailer during the update, though I accepted it to update RD. So with that, why did RD do an update today that was fake and not really necessary?

dja2k

 

Hi dja2k,

FWIW, I'm running RD on three machines, two of which are running 24/7, and have not seen any update alerts since the last release. Not much help for you...just what I see here.

Nick

 

With what I have been investigating, I noticed there is a bypass for the update by clicking the shift key. I don't know how and don't know why, but maybe I was pressing the shift key for some other program and regdefend was checking for an update at the exact time making the update bypass. I don't know what happened, just wanted to make it clear of why it did it and why I have to put my custom rules again.

dja2k

 

Actually, that is probably what happened. I will fix the next version so it doesn't do this with automatic updates, only on button presses.

 

Thanks Jason, just wanted to make sure what happened, thats all. Keep up the good work with RD.

dja2k

 

I think there might be a different glich than just the shift key. I got a popup that an update is available last Saturday. I clicked No because I was doing something else. A few minutes later I opened RD and did a check for update (NOT holding down the shift key) and it said one was available. I let it update and found no changes; however, it cleared out all my applications that were approved to do registry changes. It sounds to me like it might be on the server end.

This happened one other time shortly (3-4 days) after 2.001 was released and installed on my system.

Windows XP-SP2

 

Yeah seemed to be the same thing that happened to me last night. It's no biggie for me to allow those programs back to my custom list anyways.

dja2k