- Apr 16, 2017
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I ran into curious SNAFU with ZA anti-ransomware on my win10_vm. I was interested in ZAAR for mac after @Trident started a thread
I decided against installing ZAAR on my mac_mini (for today) then realized I had a VM perfect for ZAAR, or so I thought. win10_vm running MS Defender and ZA firewall (free). I assumed ZAAR would be a perfect addition, but it literally would NOT install or even run. Could not figure what was blocking its installation. I got a system popup saying "windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I logged in as admin, moved (copied) zaarsetup.exe to admin desktop, checked the file permission = full access, etc... I even disabled MS Defender with same result. I do not recall that ever happening in most recent past several decades! It just occurred to me that perhaps ZA firewall was blocking ZAAR, but don't have a clear idea why that would be, but it's the only thing I did not try, ie, disabling or uninstalling ZA firewall. Seems unlikely that it was somehow blocked by VMware. The setup file has a good hash per Virustotal.
Clueless, ideas welcome.
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I decided against installing ZAAR on my mac_mini (for today) then realized I had a VM perfect for ZAAR, or so I thought. win10_vm running MS Defender and ZA firewall (free). I assumed ZAAR would be a perfect addition, but it literally would NOT install or even run. Could not figure what was blocking its installation. I got a system popup saying "windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I logged in as admin, moved (copied) zaarsetup.exe to admin desktop, checked the file permission = full access, etc... I even disabled MS Defender with same result. I do not recall that ever happening in most recent past several decades! It just occurred to me that perhaps ZA firewall was blocking ZAAR, but don't have a clear idea why that would be, but it's the only thing I did not try, ie, disabling or uninstalling ZA firewall. Seems unlikely that it was somehow blocked by VMware. The setup file has a good hash per Virustotal.
Clueless, ideas welcome.