The Underdogs

[Nine Toes]

*rolls eyes*

[nulluser]

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[Nikolas]

TVD:

What you fail to understand after this thread has reached the 2nd page is that, WINRAR is a very useful program, without any viruses 99% of times (cause I don't own it, neither do I know what's going on in the web, but I've never heard of anyone "getting" a virus from winrar, or mIRC btw )!

The thing is that evreybody is telling you the same things, which you don't seem to understand:

i. mIRC cannot attack your computer
ii. winrar is as safe as anything totally legal and usable and legal and safe and whatever program in the internet. If you can trust ANY file from AGS (like for example Emily Enough wihch is a great game), why can't you trust winrar?
iii. Making new threads every other day is not pleasent (for me at least, but I can quote many people on this, including mods...)

Furthermore Emily enough, and Fatman, and every game comes with an exe file! Have you even considered not running the game, because of that? Why do you think that these people will not screw your computer, but winrar will? Why do you think that viruses will bypass Fatman, only to stick to winrar?

Please, listen to what everybody is saying: Download winrar and make your life easier! Heck! Have your parents download it! It's FREE! It's clean! It's perfect! Then use the AGS database to download all the games you want!

Also, most members here have been helping you from your very 1st post/thread, so please you do not have ANY RIGHT to compain about construcitve and whatnot!

The above is a friendly advice, take it or leave it of course!

NOTE: I'm not acting like a mod, but like someone giving advice/constructive critisism on TVD.

[nulluser]

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[jetxl]

I have the same problem with HotU.
This is what happened after I typed in the code to download any game.

Oops, there has been an error!

If you're reading this page, that means you are trying to get the game that IS up on this site, but somehow an error occurs.

You did not seem to come from the right URL. This means the referrer has not been set properly, or you didn't come from the Home of the Underdogs at all. Please see the FAQ for details on this.

Then I got bored and watched a movie instead.

[Babar]

I've not been able to download anything from Underdogs in recent memory. I have the same problem as TVD, but I don't use any download accelerators, and none of the other problems on that list seem to match up. I've given up on it now, and search for stuff elsewhere.

[Neil Dnuma]

I can trust files from AGS, but I'm just saying I can't download RAR files.

So, the antivirus-program will not let you? Turn it off for a moment.

[nulluser]

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[Becky]

Hmm, I'm not sure if my computer is able to take WinRAR, due to the recent virus attack from mIRC.

Do you know how stupid this sounds?  mIRC doesn't give you viruses.  You have an over-reacting firewall.  Change that.

[nulluser]

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[Becky]

No.  mIRC uses PORTS to TALK to OTHER PEOPLE.  "A recent attack on your computer" being blocked means that Norton is detecting traffic to and from ports that mIRC is using to communicate with the servers, NOT blocking viruses.

An "attack" could mean anything from a remote port-scan to virus.  Doesn't mean it is.  Your firewall overreacts.  Turn it down.

[nulluser]

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[Becky]

You should still be asking this on the HotU forums, not here.

[nulluser]

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[Nikolas]

Then why should we bother to help you then? You have to admit that my question is a difficult one...

Now maybe this will help you:

1. Download Spybot, or Adaware. Install and run to check for spyware!
2. Get off the internet! Close the connection and close Norton Internet Security AT ALL!
3. After you're one with it, see that indeed you have installed winrar! Something tells me that you did something wrong! When you have installed winrar, even zip files will open with it so you know that you've done the correct job!
4. You should now be able to open rar files (as well as zip, which you already do).
5. When you decide to come back online, don't foget to open Norton again...

If not there is something you're not doing right.

Many seem to have the same problem as you with HOTU... But there are other ways to play AGS games, so this is why the above list exists.

[Da_Elf]

if you dont trust rar files i feel sorry for you. more and more they are being used over zip since they compress better. and the winrar program is just an archiver and unarchiver of many archive formats. zip files used to need winzip to open then before windows integrated it into xp. your too young to know about those days i guess

[nulluser]

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[Buckethead]

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Download it and you can!

[nulluser]

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[Tuomas]

He means to say, that his computer takes rar files as corrupted files, and winrar doesn't handle the files, so there is some problem there.