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I completely understand your point of view and the logic of your reply, but the bottom line is-GOTD needs to revise and improve their wrapper simple as that. It works fine one day on one program, but the next day it doesn't? It is poor programming on their part-pure and simple imho.
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They should be able to come up with a code that that funtions in a way not to alienate users or cause them to jump through hoops to install. The fact that GoTD is OVERzealous with regards to their wrapper is inexcusable. That being said, I don't use Kaspersky, but that is irreverlent.
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Choosing security software is like choosing any other sort of app, though it's more important that you choose wisely since unlike an image editor, chances are you're only going to have one security suite installed.
#Inpaint setup blocked by avast install#
It's up to whomever owns a PC/laptop to choose which security software they want to install & use - it's up to that owner to decide the level of usability, interference or intrusiveness, & performance that they want. GOTD has a valid reason for compacting/encrypting the setup files - companies like Kaspersky feel that they're justified in blocking anything their software can't examine. The companies making AV software have to figure out their own policies for dealing with that sort of thing - helping secure your system is a balancing act between being unnoticeable to users & less effective, or being more effective yet rendering the system unusable. GOTD's setup.exe isn't the only software that uses compacting &/or encryption, nor is it the only software to write setup files solely to system memory. But, making sure nobody can see that actual install file to save it also means that no antivirus software can see if it matches a pattern for known mal-ware either.

When run it contacts the GOTD servers to verify that the offer is valid, then unpacks the actual installation program into system memory, where it's run. Now, to ensure a GOTD's actual setup or install program cannot be accessed, saved, & run anytime in the future, that file is compacted & encrypted inside the GOTD setup.exe file - what many folks call a wrapper. That means companies don't have to set up anything special if they don't want to, which also means that more companies can & will use GOTD. While the software companies themselves still may impose those limits, they don't have to since GOTD chose to go the 2nd route. There are basically 2 ways to do that - 1) if the company providing the software restricts handing out keys &/or only activates keys on the day of the giveaway, & 2) if GOTD packages the setup file so it will only install on the day of the offer. Things are the way they are because GOTD's announced strategy is to enforce the GOTD concept, as in available for One Day Only, to attract higher quality products - that helps us, which likely helps them stay popular & become more-so. Since most major brands of security software have fully functional trials available, their support staff can't really be blamed for thinking: "If it didn't work for you, why did you buy it?"
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If that's the case, & you want to fix it so the GOTD downloads work as expected, without having to go into Safe Mode, uninstall Kaspersky or whatever security software, & install a trial or a free version of some other brand so that you can make sure that it works. When you run Activate.exe from GOTD there is no installation file to write to memory, so nothing for security software to latch onto. If you want to make sure it's the security software, turn it off from auto-starting with Windows, & if the GOTD works, that's pretty much proof. If you've got Kaspersky software installed, & if installing a GOTD works in Safe Mode, odds are that that security software is messing with the setup files written to memory, so that they're unavailable to run.


Something must be fubar with the wrapper. "I find it very difficult to understand why I can install one day and not the next, nor do I feel(or understand) the problem is on my end. Kaspersky there isn't anyone to blame really - the closest I can come to an analogy is that it's like an allergy, where certain things have to be avoided. Ask GOTD fans & they might say users are at fault for installing Kaspersky when it has known problems with GOTD - ask fans of Kaspersky & they might say it's those users fault for wanting to run a GOTD. As far as who's fault it is, both the GOTD & security software are working as designed - each company has it's own strategies & policies, which in this case are likely at odds. The problem that's posted most often nowadays seems to be Kaspersky software blocking the GOTD from working.
