1) Message boards : BOINC client : Warning: Symantec AV blocks downloads (Message 15436) Posted 15 Feb 2008 by Sascha78 Post: Just to let you know: I downloaded BOINC yesterday, installed it and logged in to the project without any problems. When BOINC tried to download project files and new work units, I received the message "http error" and no files were downloaded at all (that's not exactly true, because 3.76 KB of each file was downloaded but that must have been an error message - is there any way to check what the content of this partial download was?). I tried switching proxy but that didn't change anything ... when I left work I hoped the files would have been downloaded over night, but that didn't work either. This morning I switched off my Symantec AV and restarted BOINC and downloads started and finished successfully! Once again it's that sh***y piece of AV software that caused troubles!! There wasn't even a note in the AV log files about blocked connections! So if you ever have trouble downloading files, stop Symantec and all will be fine ;) Regards, Sascha

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