I keep getting an error whenever i try any type of bearshare other than that sucky version 6. i get through all the installation, but when i get to Would you kile to run bearshare now?...Stuff begins to **** me off.

Here's what it says

"this program has been damaged, possibly by a bad sector of the hard drive or a virus. Please reinstall it"

I scanned countless times, it worked for a damn good while after 6 came out and now....Ugh..Any tips?

I'm hearing from other AOL users that this was caused by a buggy update to
that AOL Security Center software. It might have misidentified a virus inside
BearShare and tried to remove it, damaging the program instead.

Well, is there any way to fix it? I really hate the new bearshare and wanna use the one i came in with.

BTW does AOL Security Center affect BearShare in the same way it affects LimeWire? For LW it misidentifies it & attempts to remove it. Perhaps Bearshare should be put on its 'safe list'!!! I believe AOL security uses Pestpatrol & it incorrectly identifies p2p programs as spyware even if they don't possess it. But then, I wouldn't be surprised if some BS versions do have it ... such as version 6. ;) :D

Uninstall the AOL Security Center and then find the Pest Patrol folder in Program
Files and delete that folder manually. After a reboot it should be safe, so go to
the first post in this thread, download BearShare 5.1.0b25 and BearStart and
install them into a brand new folder.

I found it, CA Pest Patrol Realtime Protection. Only thing with pest patrol in the name on my comp. That it?

....I had bad experiences with this kinda thing before....Wanna be sure before i fry my comp from the inside.


---Edit:Tried it......Didnt work. Still got that blasted error.

After you removed pest Patrol, did you make sure to reboot and delete the remnants?

If not, it could have remained active and damaged your brand new install as it
was in progress. In any case, you should completely delete the damaged
BearShare folder before trying again. Sometimes installing over top of an
existing folder fails to replace damaged files, particularly if the damaged files
look newer to the installer program or if a buggy security program is still active
and interfering.

Another fellow came to Technutopia yesterday and succeeded with this same
problem, so it is possible.

Don't forget to uninstall that AOL Security Center and reboot if you didn't do
that yet. It has been identified as a likely culprit too.

Kk. Trying again

Hi,

I installed the version in post 1 and BS connects great. Only trouble is the key expired thing.

If I close BS and then open it again, the key expired pop up comes up. So I change my clock back to 01/07/05 and can then open BS. Once it's opened I change the date back to today's date and it runs ok.

But this means that every time I want to open BS then I have to change the date back to '05 first and then back to '07 once it's opened.

Is there a way around this so I don't have to keep switching the date?

Thanks

You have to use BearStart every time. Change the shortcut you used to start
BearShare to point to BearStart instead.