I sync both posts and comments. It didn't give me the message while I was actually syncing my journals, but just afterwards when I was looking at some posts/comments with embedded photos and videos in them - I don't know if it could be related to that? (I had already viewed those same posts a few weeks ago without any Trojan warning, though.)
Have you ever registered for a free Dreamwidth account? It's based on the LJ format and you can back up all your LJ posts and comments there using their "Dreamwidth importer". I do it once a month. If we ever lost LJ, that would be my for-real journal back-up.
I might have to, although it would be a poor substitute for ljArchive. (Apart from being my backup tool, the search facility is also incredibly useful, plus I have some old archives with comments from people whose journals have since been deleted.)
I hear ya. I still have the zip with the exe that I used most recently (the installation I just checked successfully), if you want a copy of the zip, lemme know and I'll send. susandennis@gmail.com
Update: I tried clicking "Ignore", but it appears Kaspersky has already gone ahead and deleted ljArchive altogether! There's a report from a few hours ago which says "Application added to the Low Restricted group" - "Reason: according to calculated rating", whatever that means.
I still have the setup file so I could try reinstalling it, but I suspect it's just going to happen again. This sucks!
Update 2: Kaspersky wouldn't let me do anything until I ran the Disinfect process, so I did. "Rolling back actions of malicious program" involved restoring six registry values under "internet settings" (proxyenable, proxyserver, proxyoverride, autoconfigurl, autodetect, and connections\savedlegacysettings), and restoring 7 JPGs in my temporary internet files.
I am pretty clueless as to what this means. Is ljArchive *supposed* to change those registry values? And if not, what was the Trojan attempting to do?
Did it say that the settings it rolled back were related to ljarchive specifically or could those changes have been related to something else it detected?
Do you have your computer set to use a proxy server of some sort? Proxyenable is a setting that switches back and forth between using a proxy and not using a proxy. The others are related to using proxy servers as well. I can see no sign that ljarchive wants to use a proxy server on my computer. If the changes to those settings were really related to ljarchive, it may be that yours is set to use one for some reason and it wants to temporarily switch it off while it does its thing. It is also possible that the security program is detecting a real problem but is failing to detect that correct cause for the problem.
Malware sometimes sets the computer to go through a proxy server as a way of serving up false or malicious content, which is why security programs watch for changes to those settings. There are plenty of legitimate programs that use proxy servers too.
Unfortunately LJ archive won't sync any comments post a date in October 2012 for me. I really have no idea why, it keeps saying that the server doesn't support exporting comments (but WILL download comments on entries prior to that date) and gives me this error message when I expand the message
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I've been using the fixed version that was provided here in Feb 2012. (Yikes, I just found a comment I left there, saying I had trouble downloading the setup file because my antivirus deemed it untrustworthy and deleted it. I guess I found a way round that, but now I'm wondering if it really was a bad idea to install it.)
Anyway, that version didn't give me any problems with downloading comments, so I don't know why it's not working for you. :/
so i didn't get a virus warning with a clean download of the supposedly "fixed" version... but i AM getting the sync error when it goes to dl comments. dammit.
if anyone figures out a work-around, i hope they post it. lots of people seem fidgety to grab their journals, courtesy of all this diplomatic BS.
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Whew. Good luck. I'm voting false positive.
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http://ljarchive.livejournal.com/89769.html?thread=488617#t488617
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I also went and copied my entries into Dreamwidth for backup, just to be on the safe side.
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I still have the setup file so I could try reinstalling it, but I suspect it's just going to happen again. This sucks!
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I am pretty clueless as to what this means. Is ljArchive *supposed* to change those registry values? And if not, what was the Trojan attempting to do?
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Do you have your computer set to use a proxy server of some sort? Proxyenable is a setting that switches back and forth between using a proxy and not using a proxy. The others are related to using proxy servers as well. I can see no sign that ljarchive wants to use a proxy server on my computer. If the changes to those settings were really related to ljarchive, it may be that yours is set to use one for some reason and it wants to temporarily switch it off while it does its thing. It is also possible that the security program is detecting a real problem but is failing to detect that correct cause for the problem.
Malware sometimes sets the computer to go through a proxy server as a way of serving up false or malicious content, which is why security programs watch for changes to those settings. There are plenty of legitimate programs that use proxy servers too.
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I don't really know what a proxy server is, so presumably my computer is not set to use one!
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Anyway, that version didn't give me any problems with downloading comments, so I don't know why it's not working for you. :/
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if anyone figures out a work-around, i hope they post it. lots of people seem fidgety to grab their journals, courtesy of all this diplomatic BS.
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