re: Constant NSIS installer errors
Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
kamusician wrote:
[...]even after reformat/reinstalling 98se[...]
|[...]happens after two clean reinstalls/harddrive reformats
|It is not due to a virus/malware infection
|as it happens after two clean reinstalls/harddrive reformats
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You do realize that FORMAT is *not* the lowest level you can go to wipe a disk.
Right?
e.g. a boot sector virus is *not* affected by a FORMAT.
You would have to wipe the **partition** to clobber that
--and even after that, some folks have reported problems with drives being stubborn.
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is the usual remedy for these edge cases
...or if you just want to be never bothered with any chance of gotchas.
|[...]before I ever went online
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An interesting item I saw the other day:
"25% of Worms Spread Via USB"
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/08/26/1343206
...and, pursuant to that,
for those who still foolishly depend on the easily-infected platform called Windoze
and (again, foolishly) who haven't prepared
a list of dangerous things to disable IMMEDIATELY after the OS install:
http://google.com/search?q=intitle:Disable-AutoRun
Windoze + Removable media == Dangerous
(Add in AutoRun and you may as well stab yourself in the head.
Note: Any Unix-like platform--aka anything other than M$'s junk--
doesn't have this massive vulnerability.)
|Cannot fix NSIS installer error[...]
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The first page I pulled up on this says:
:If you get the NSIS error while installing software on your computer,
:then the software has failed the integrity check, and is either corrupt or damaged."
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If a boot sector virus isn't the issue,
I would suspect damaged install media (e.g. scratched CDs).
If you are having problems with *multiple* apps, however,
this does not extrapolate so well.
If your apps' install files were stored on writable media (a HDD),
I would suspect that that media got infected.
(Again, a proper OS--like Linux--doesn't have these problems.)
...and Linux is FREE and works on old hardware.
I am also ASSuMEing that the version of NSIS you have
is supported under Win9x.
http://google.com/search?q=define:NSIS
Have you *ever* had this working under the old M$ OS?
Again, the page I pulled up mentioned CMD but *not* COMMAND.COM.
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