Beta expired oddity

[Steve CAmpbell]

I installed the MS (ex Giant) AntiSpyware Beta on my PC (XP
HE SP2) and was instantly informed that the Beta expired on
31st July 2005 and I should get a new version from MS !

Now, I installed it on 8th January. As I live in the UK
this date is 8/1/2005 and it seems more than coincidental
that the US format would read this as 1st August (i.e. the
day after 31st July).

All my time zone information is correctly set to GMT and to
make it odder the software installed brilliantly on my
wife's Toshiba laptop (also XP HE SP2).

I can't figure this one out. Anyone with any bright ideas?

Thanks.

Steve

 

[Mark]

I'm in the UK too but I installed mine a few days ago
(10/1/2005) and if there was any obvious bug with the
installer, I would have had the same problem too.

I know it sounds silly, or even patronising, but is your
system clock/date set correctly? (regardless of Regional
Settings or Time Zone).

Cheers

Mark

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I would also check on how you have the display format set for dates. If it
is other than the default for your locale, I would recommend changing it to
the default.

There are a fair number of localization type issues such as this
one--they've been noted and are being worked on.

 

[Steve Campbell]

Thanks for replying. Yes it is and the laptop which is
identically set up is just fine.........

Steve

 

[Guest]

Well, blow me...... if that didn't work. I had it set to
show Wed 12/01/2005. I reset it it to dd/MM/yyyy only and
teh beta installed! I now remember that I customised this
some years ago.

Many Thanks.

Steve

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Well, blow me...... if that didn't work. I had it set to
show Wed 12/01/2005. I reset it it to dd/MM/yyyy only and
teh beta installed! I now remember that I customised this
some years ago.

Many Thanks.

Terrific--glad that did it. Basic sort of bug--but one that an organization
like Microsoft, which is accustomed to thinking globally, would get right.
They are working on it!

 

[Bryan Bellis]

I'm also in the UK, and didn't experience this problem at
all. It doesn't pick up on all spyware, but I didn't have
any clock or "out of date" problems.

 

[John Smyrk]

Steve,
I had the same problem. See the thread below starting 9-
Jan from "John S." entitled "Antspyware wont start--
licence expired".

John Smyrk

 

[Ian Batterbee]

Well, blow me...... if that didn't work. I had it set to

Terrific--glad that did it. Basic sort of bug--but one that an organization
like Microsoft, which is accustomed to thinking globally, would get right.
They are working on it!

Just add my 2c worth.. I had the same problem... years ago I had changed
my short date format in regional settings to make the day of the week
display in mozilla when reading my email.

The symptoms were as everyone is describing - the app says it has
expired on the 31st July 2005.

I found a hungarian website (can't read hungarian), which had some
screenshots of the error.log file in c:\program files\microsoft antispyware.

This is what mine contained:

13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:02:54 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:02:54 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:04:05 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:06:13 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:06:36 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type
mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri, 14-Jan-05
9:07:35 AM:1.0.501


So from that, I figured that microsoft had assumed everyone in the world
used much the same date format and that changing it back to defaults
would do the trick.. and it did.

Silly microsoft.. they should know better than that.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

This is what mine contained:

13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:02:54 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:02:54 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:04:05 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:06:13 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:06:36 AM:1.0.501
13::ln 0:Type mismatch::gcasDtServ:modSession:TimeBombDaysRemaining::Fri,
14-Jan-05 9:07:35 AM:1.0.501


So from that, I figured that microsoft had assumed everyone in the world
used much the same date format and that changing it back to defaults would
do the trick.. and it did.

Silly microsoft.. they should know better than that.

Remember, this beta is a trial of an early step in integrating Giant's
product as a Microsoft product. It was released less than 30 days after
Microsoft's acquisition of the technology. I'm not at all surprised to find
issues like this one, and the lack of Accessibility shortcuts, in the
product.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I'm in the UK too but I installed mine a few days ago
(10/1/2005) and if there was any obvious bug with the
installer, I would have had the same problem too.

I know it sounds silly, or even patronising, but is your
system clock/date set correctly? (regardless of Regional
Settings or Time Zone).

Cheers

Mark

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