I have been unable to get AVAST to install on our Windows 2k3 server
since purchasing here for our small recording studio. Nada, never, nuntz.
Just never works. Very frustrating, but luckily, there don't seem to be than
many viruses floating around these days, but then each computer we have, has
Vipre AV installed from Grisoft.
Interesting observation. Is this working for others too? I just tried
the same on one of the problem servers and was unable to use this to
install avast on a server where it was failing to install.
What was the size of the original setiface.dll and after that
procedure did you have a new setiface.dll in that directory and what size?
To fill people in on some background that file is the Alwil software
supplied setup dll that surgemail calls into to run the actual installer.
If it is missing surgemail should re-download a copy from netwinsite.com
and use that instead. In my testing just now the failing to install system
started with:
03/04/2012 01:58 p.m. 81,968 setiface.dll
Removing that did not seem to have surgemail redownloading the file
(which I expected it to do), but downloading it manually from:
ftp://netwinsite.com/pub/surgemail/util/setiface.dll
resulted in the newer (and smaller) version of this file:
14/04/2012 10:37 a.m. 79,706 setiface.dll
But even with that running the installer from the surgemail admin
interface was still failing. This is on a system we have done a fair bit
of messing with to try and get it to work so there may be other reasons
now for it failing :-(
So it does look like the surgemail distributions still have the older
setup dll in them which is something we can fix. Let us know if anyone
else has better luck getting avast to install using the above procedure!
Marijn
On Saturday 14/04/2012 at 8:01 am, surgemail-list@netwinsite.com
wrote:
This is a tip for those with issues installing AVAST virus scanner
on Windows Server.
On two separate Windows Server machines AVAST would not install. We
were using server 2003 and server 2008 with SurgeMail Version 6.0a4-4.
The solution was to remove "C:\surgemail\avast\setup\setiface.dll"
and then retry the AVAST installation through the web gui.
In both cases this installed AVAST anti-virus correctly.
