Bradford dissolvable agent

brownacid

Poxy thing isn't working on my laptop, it keeps showing up

"Unable to read policy.

Please check your personal firewall settings and try again."

as soon as it launches.

I tried messing around with my firewall adding the program to my acceptable programs list, that didn't work so I just turned off the dammed thing and it still didn't work. Has anyone any ideas what to do with it, I really don't want to have to queue up in IS services for hours for it to be something simple.


Fcukin ISS for making it so hard to reconnect to the network

Jonathan

What OS?

boblong

I think I got that error when I wasn't connected to whatever I was supposed to be connected to at the time. Are you actually trying this in college when you are connected to TCDwifi or firststeps or whatever the instructions say you should be connected to?

brownacid

I'm using vista. Its the same laptop I've connect to the network with for the last 3 years and this year just not working. Yeah I tried for about an hour in the library today messing around with settings while I was connected to tcdfirst steps and tcdwifi but just wasn't working.

AndrewJD

I'm at Trinity Hall, and as of maybe 8:00 pm tonight I can't connect to the Internet. Most annoying.

ED E

AndrewJD wrote: »

I'm at Trinity Hall, and as of maybe 8:00 pm tonight I can't connect to the Internet. Most annoying.

I hear they keep hitting the fibre optic in rathmines cutting off Halls.

AndrewJD

Nah it was letting me on tcd.ie etc just nothing external. The ISS were doing some maintenance that "shouldn't cause any disruption".

Anyways its back up just now. I can resume rechecking facebook and watching YouTube videos of cats.

ED E

brownacid wrote: »

I'm using vista. Its the same laptop I've connect to the network with for the last 3 years and this year just not working. Yeah I tried for about an hour in the library today messing around with settings while I was connected to tcdfirst steps and tcdwifi but just wasn't working.

Tried running the scanner as Admin?

brownacid

just tried that now bullett but still the same message coming up, I disabled kaspersky and turned on avg and still made no difference

ED E

brownacid wrote: »

just tried that now bullett but still the same message coming up, I disabled kaspersky and turned on avg and still made no difference

Do you have both installed? That could be the issue, AV packages are usually run exclusively, having the two could be causing the conflict.

brownacid

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

Do you have both installed? That could be the issue, AV packages are usually run exclusively, having the two could be causing the conflict.

I've only just put avg on it as Kasprsky won't pass the security scan for some reason so I disabled the kaspersky and it makes no difference

ED E

If you boot a live disk {Ubuntu} and pass it on that then revert to Windows you should only have to enter the proxy info.

brownacid

Whats a live disk?

Jonathan

brownacid wrote: »

Whats a live disk?

An operating system that runs entirely from the cd.

brownacid

Jonathan wrote: »

An operating system that runs entirely from the cd.

Nah I haven't got one of them and would prob **** somethig up rightly if I did.

AndrewJD

Nah the whole point of them is that they're relatively easy to set up, and if anything goes wrong you restart without the disk. Google it.

WOFall

I've heard the problem is that their outdated agent doesn't recognize the newer AVG (although it seems strange that it warns against firewall and not antivirus). A live OS will be useless to you, because the dissolvable agent doesn't work on linux at all. The queue at the moment for the Network Clinics runs on to next week. The whole idea of running spyware to increase "security" is a stupid idea anyway.

You might have success with McAfee, but frankly, eww.


Btw, you should still play around with something like Ubuntu for the sake of it

Jonathan

WOFall wrote: »

A live OS will be useless to you, because the dissolvable agent doesn't work on linux at all.

Yes it does.

They had bash script that you used to run, but that has since been replaced with a binary blob.

WOFall

Jonathan wrote: »

Yes it does.

They had bash script that you used to run, but that has since been replaced with a binary blob.

That's interesting, I tried the .bin they gave in both Arch and Ubuntu, without success in either. What are you running?

Jonathan

WOFall wrote: »

That's interesting, I tried the .bin they gave in both Arch and Ubuntu, without success in either. What are you running?

Ubuntu Lucid.

Have you marked the file as executable?

ED E

WOFall wrote: »

That's interesting, I tried the .bin they gave in both Arch and Ubuntu, without success in either. What are you running?

Rename .sh and execute from a su terminal. Done.

fishtastico

Isn't Bradford reagent to be used to determine protein concentration using spectrophotometry? If you're pouring it on your computer, that's your problem right there

WOFall

Thanks for suggestions, yes it is marked executable. On Arch the LSB dependency is... troublesome, as it's neither in the repos or the AUR. I did attempt to do it manually, but obviously I went wrong somewhere.

On Ubuntu LSB can be installed from the repos, but the agent fails with the somewhat cryptic error "unable to read policy".

I did email IS services on the off-chance that they'd forward my MAC without me being there in person, but understandably, they're not willing to do that.

Peleus

anyone asked to upgrade their vista to service pack 1? My computer doesnt seem to want to and i cant get in otherwise

ED E

Peleus wrote: »

anyone asked to upgrade their vista to service pack 1? My computer doesnt seem to want to and i cant get in otherwise

Try downloading the updater manually rather than using update.

Or, you might get a free copy of 7 with the college purchase scheme, I dont know what courses are covered or if everyone gets that.

Peleus

ye i tried the stand alone version and it still didnt work. There seems to be a fair few virusus on it so i might sort them out first then try it again. ugh the stress of this...:(

evercloserunion

WOFall wrote: »

Thanks for suggestions, yes it is marked executable. On Arch the LSB dependency is... troublesome, as it's neither in the repos or the AUR. I did attempt to do it manually, but obviously I went wrong somewhere.

On Ubuntu LSB can be installed from the repos, but the agent fails with the somewhat cryptic error "unable to read policy".

I did email IS services on the off-chance that they'd forward my MAC without me being there in person, but understandably, they're not willing to do that.

FYI, I also tried on both Ubuntu Lucid and Arch. On Ubuntu, downloading lsb from the repos worked just fine for me. I share your experience on Arch though. There appears to be no attempt to support LSB whatsoever. I tried compiling from source, but part of the compilation process involves git'ing from the net and my connection keeps timing out so I'm not sure if that would bear fruit. I found it very hard to even find the source files.

I imagine the easiest thing to do would be to have it vaildated in person. though if you have an Ubuntu live CD around I'd give it another try.

mk429

evercloserunion wrote: »

I share your experience on Arch though. There appears to be no attempt to support LSB whatsoever.

A clever man than myself discovered that it seems to want to use the LSB linker. If you symlink the linux linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2 probably) to the path of the linker it tries to use (I forget what that is, it's in the binary blob), then it all works flawlessly, and without messy LSB installation.

evercloserunion

mk429 wrote: »

A clever man than myself discovered that it seems to want to use the LSB linker. If you symlink the linux linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.2 probably) to the path of the linker it tries to use (I forget what that is, it's in the binary blob), then it all works flawlessly, and without messy LSB installation.

Ah very interesting! Thanks for that. I will try figure it out then.