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Forum Thread: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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| stros29
| The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by stros29 on 14th Jun, 2009 16:17, last edited on 14th Jun, 2009 16:18
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I am getting cryptic messages because Akamai program is insecure. It has taken me "nowhere" and the Akamai program still is insecure.
Please, direct me to the fix.
Acoording to the download, if I can see the message that all is well, then the program should be good. Secunia still tells me the Akamai program is insecure. |
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| BigDave_39
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by BigDave_39 on 14th Jun, 2009 16:25
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Can you tell us what path it is detected in?
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| stros29
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by stros29 on 14th Jun, 2009 18:52, last edited on 14th Jun, 2009 18:52
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I am not a computer maven. I do not know "the path."
I downloaded a thing that had me go through some motions, which I did. I was given a message that said, something to the effect, if you can read this, the Akamai is ok. Up to there all seems ok.
Secunia still sees the program as insecure. |
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| BigDave_39
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by BigDave_39 on 14th Jun, 2009 19:47
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When your mouse is over the entry in the PSI you should be able to see the "path", it looks something like this:
c:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files\file.ocx
Could you type this path here?
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| stros29
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by stros29 on 14th Jun, 2009 20:58
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Big Dave, thanks for the replies.
The path is c:\Windows\DownloadedProgramFiles\DownloadManagerV 2.ocx |
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| Andy_E
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by Andy_E on 25th Jul, 2009 21:24
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It looks to me that the new install works fine, but it fails to remove to the old files. I opened a CMD window, changed to the directory where the old files resided and removed the files. I then tested the download manager by downloading a file from Microsoft's MSDN subscriber downloads. It worked fine.
start->run
cmd [ENTER]
cd "C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files"
dir [ENTER]
del <filename>
where filename is the name of each insecure file (or Down*.* to get them all at once) |
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| booyas
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by booyas on 13th Aug, 2009 21:14
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Did exactly as told, there are 2 files:
DownloadManagerV2.inf
DownloadManagerV2.ocx
Trying to delete gives answer: access denied.
Any Sugestions? |
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| wr
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by wr on 13th Aug, 2009 23:51
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Hi booyas,
You'll have to run the Command Prompt as Administrator-not sure how you access this in XP-in Vista you click Start, then All Programs, then click Accessories, when the menu opens there, right click Command Prompt & from that menu choose Run as administrator. Hope this helps you.
Regards, wr
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| booyas
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by booyas on 14th Aug, 2009 12:06, last edited on 14th Aug, 2009 12:06
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thanks, that helped... but
secunia says there were 2 akamai download manager activex control 2.x
as described in your advice, I managed to remove one of them, secunia says there is one more at the same place, but I can not see it when I open that folder. (using command line, etc.) Can those be under name other than "download..."?
Acer Aspire 9300
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| Maurice Joyce
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by Maurice Joyce on 14th Aug, 2009 16:43
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They should be both in there:
Download ManagerV2 Inf is a 1KB Set Up File
Download Manager V2 Ocx is a 44KB ActiveX Control
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| booyas
| RE: The fix for an insecure Akamai program
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by booyas on 14th Aug, 2009 18:34
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here again
I managed to find out myself. after removing suggested 2 files, I could see in windows map (c:windows/Downloaded Programs Files/ that my download mannager was only wounded, but not letaly. Then I saw that manager.exe was still there, and then removed it through command prompt.
That finally did it, downloader was gone. |
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