Subject:ACE.dll

Posted by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 12:31:57 PM

Next up. AP7 wants to add ACE.dll I looked it up and it is:

ace.dll (Apropos spyware) - Details

If your pc has the file ace.dll on it, your pc may have the spyware program known as Apropos installed. The Apropos program will monitor activity on your pc and possibly send this information to a third party.

ace.dll is considered to be a security risk, not only because spyware removal programs flag Apropos spyware as spyware, but also because a number of users have complained about its performance.

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: jackn2mpu

Date:10/31/2008 1:15:22 PM

ace.dll is also a part of Adobe Acrobat - how does one tell if what one has is legit? I tried Google, but the one entry that supposedly has a validity checker is inaccessible. And Ad Aware conflicts with Verizon's Internet Security Suite (which is Verizon's security program for those on their dsl or fibre optic services).
jack

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 1:37:35 PM

ACE = Adobe Color Engine

When you say "ACID wants to add", what do you mean?

ACID is installing this or loading it?

Peter

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 1:47:47 PM

Acid is installing all these .dll it finds into itself.

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 1:50:57 PM

ace.dll is not part of our install that I could find.

Did you locate this dll on your system? Where is it located at?


Peter

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 4:50:25 PM

I found it in Adobe reader, Adobe Air and I uninstalled both of them. Should I uninstall and reinstall. AP7 has picked up so much garbage I could never get rid of it.

I have Comodo firewall and ESET virus, malware, and adware which found and quarantined the NI program and Sony's Guitar program.

I did not expect there would be stuff coming in that was viewed as a threat by both Microsoft, Comodo and Eset.

The reason it quarantined the two programs was they both contained a variant of Win32/Packed.Themida application.

It could not have been a false positive because I watched at Microsoft, Comodo and ESET make a quarantine folder for them. The next downloads failed on both of them and the third on both was successful.

ESET says it can not safely disinfect these large programs so they sit in quarantine.

This is where the problem started. Should I uninstall and reinstall.

AP7 also pulled into it's main folder a bunch of stuff that starts up Tracktion3, offers a choice of Front Page or Tracktion to open others and they all have Tracktion logos, should I uninstall Tracktion 3 as well, I already uninstalled, automap which AP7 is still looking for, all the Adobe stuff, Acronis would not let me delete their .dll, I deleted AP6 and any other traces of other DAW's via uninstall, and physically removed folders, I cleaned everything from my registry, to my daily stuff of Perfect 8 defrag, ESET update, it updates itself every 30 minutes anyway, ESET scan, Comodo scan. This was after the ESET catch on the incoming bugs from the Sony server and the adding of my serial number to my perfect AP7 demo install. How much more careful can I be, there has to be a certain amount of due diligence on the part of Sony prior to release. This is not a smarmy comment, I have been through this with 5 & 6 as well.

I am not the mental giants of computing as most of the people are here. I know maybe one or two things no one knows, maybe one, lol, but it looks like it is scanning my whole C drive. I looked in the VST folder in the registry and there was one set of plug ins there.

Should I uninstall and reinstall the AP7 I downloaded when I bought AP7.

Seriously, I don't want to be a pain but I have had problems for three years, which means no fun of writing and recording.

I have quads, duos of both AMD and Intel, 4 computers less than a year old. everything is new every year and a half.

I have fulfilled my responsibility as a buyer, I asked questions before install, don't know what to do. Nobody is saying uninstall, reinstall.

Any suggestions.

Thank you.

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:10/31/2008 6:54:49 PM

Seriously, I don't want to be a pain but I have had problems for three years, which means no fun of writing and recording. I have quads, duos of both AMD and Intel, 4 computers less than a year old. everything is new every year and a half. I have fulfilled my responsibility as a buyer, I asked questions before install, don't know what to do. Nobody is saying uninstall, reinstall.

Any suggestions.

Yes - my suggestion would be to completely uninstall. It also sounds like your Windows installation may not be sound either. For comparison - I downloaded ACID 7.0 like everyone else last Monday...hit Setup...took the usual 5 minutes to install and I was up and running. No errors, no crashes, no bizarre scans.

Also - I run ESET and had none of the issues that you are going on about. The archive is clean - there is NO viruses or malware assoicated with any of the Sony files.

Judging by the strange files you are mentioning - that have nothing to do with ACID - it's obvious that you have a major problem. Rebuilding your entire machine may not be out of the question either.

Cheers!

VP

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 9:06:31 PM

I am going to have to go along with Vocalpoint on this one. We are very careful about the security of our downloads not to contain any malicious code. We do not require anything that would introduce such a problem.

The rest of what you are saying about Tracktion and other tools has never appeared as an issue internally or externally.

Peter

Subject:RE: ACE.dll

Reply by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 10:46:09 PM

Peter, After the past two days of wringing hands and sweating it out, I believe I can put a handle on it. I will write one post and put everything on that one from now on but it looks like the program, my disc and Acid 7 are trashed. I'll name it my vst scanning problem.