Re: Corrupted download

2014-08-31 Thread Jack Waters
I downloaded Astromenda start page virus recently when I carelessly failed to uncheck a box. After my malware byte and ms security essentials failed to find it, a friend told me to get adwcleaner and it found it and removed it. Sent from my iPad On Aug 31, 2014, at 14:11, jd1008 wrote: > >

Re: Corrupted download

2014-08-31 Thread jd1008
On 08/31/2014 07:01 AM, FRED HITCHMAN wrote: I recently downloaded Open Office. Hidden inside the download was an unwanted program (perfrorMAX- a coputer cleaning software) that was impossible to stop from running, and difficult to remove. In addition somewhere either in Open Office or Permo

Re: Corrupted download

2014-08-31 Thread Steve Ahlers
Fred, Apache Open Office if downloaded through the official site (OpenOffice.org) does not add on any other software or malware. You will be redirected to the official mirror site (SourceForge.net) which also will not piggyback malware onto the download. Assuming that you meant that the malwar

Re: Corrupted download

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This is not our software, please download it from the official site. Apache OpenOffice goes through sourceforge. As a regular practice you should also be able to check for the MD5 of the download. Here are some links to the MD5 as well as the how to do it in windows. http://www.openoffice.org/downl

Re: conflict with MSWORD

2014-08-31 Thread Josef Latt
Am 31.08.2014 um 14:27 schrieb James Knott: > When you installed OO, it set the file associations to it. This is selectable in the installation process. -- PGP-Schlüssel: 0xD2A804E4 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...

Corrupted download

2014-08-31 Thread FRED HITCHMAN
I recently downloaded Open Office. Hidden inside the download was an unwanted program (perfrorMAX- a coputer cleaning software) that was impossible to stop from running, and difficult to remove. In addition somewhere either in Open Office or PermorMAX, was a 'startpage' virus or trojan that my

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
johnny smith wrote: The URL is http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html and you will find it there as usual (it's linked from the main download box too). actually, it opens without '.html' as well. however, i cannot find a link on the download page, although i recollect it having been there

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
andrea, thanks for the speedy action. one note below. On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:25:55 -, Andrea Pescetti wrote: javascript-based input boxes have never been very reliable. where has gone the old plain link to ? The URL is http://www.openoffice.org/

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
johnny smith wrote: javascript-based input boxes have never been very reliable. where has gone the old plain link to ? The URL is http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html and you will find it there as usual (it's linked from the main download box

Re: conflict with MSWORD

2014-08-31 Thread James Knott
On 08/31/2014 05:48 AM, Tom Boyde wrote: > I trust this is being sent to an appropriate address and that I will get a > real reply, not reference to a blog or similar [never useful for me > personally]. > > Having installed OpenOffice 4.1 on several computers which already had a > version of MSWORD

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread James Knott
On 08/31/2014 04:30 AM, Christopher O'Brian wrote: > I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am having > problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign language without my > being able to alter the language to English. Can you send me info on how to > correct this A

Re: conflict with MSWORD

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:48:13 -, Tom Boyde wrote: Having installed OpenOffice 4.1 on several computers which already had a version of MSWORD installed, I find 1] Microsoft Word is no longer usable on each of those computers, in fact seems to have been uninstalled. word is still on your co

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:30:21 -, Christopher O'Brian wrote: On the download page I wasn’t able to input the language preference, system used, or anything as the drop down menus for this were blank! for the community: javascript-based input boxes have never been very reliable. where has

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-08-31 12:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 31/08/2014 M. Fioretti wrote: On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: Is there any way that [without a lot of effort] a post from a nonsubscriber could trigger an email warning that he/she will not see the response unless subscribed? yes: http:/

conflict with MSWORD

2014-08-31 Thread Tom Boyde
I trust this is being sent to an appropriate address and that I will get a real reply, not reference to a blog or similar [never useful for me personally]. Having installed OpenOffice 4.1 on several computers which already had a version of MSWORD installed, I find 1] Microsoft Word is no longer u

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/08/2014 M. Fioretti wrote: On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: Is there any way that [without a lot of effort] a post from a nonsubscriber could trigger an email warning that he/she will not see the response unless subscribed? yes: http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/11/a-proposal-for-effec

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:30:21 -, Christopher O'Brian wrote: I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am having problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign language without my being able to alter the language to English. Can you send me info on how to correct th

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 31 August 2014 12:30:21 am you wrote: > Hello, > > > I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am > having problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign > language without my being able to alter the language to English. Can > you send me info on how to correct

Re: Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Download them from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.1/binaries/ On 8/31/14, Christopher O'Brian wrote: > Hello, > > > I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am having > problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign language witho

Problems with Open Office

2014-08-31 Thread Christopher O'Brian
Hello, I have recently tried downloading Apache Open Office and am having problems right at the start. It downloaded in a foreign language without my being able to alter the language to English. Can you send me info on how to correct this ASAP please. On the download page I wasn’t able to

Re: Non-subscriber questions

2014-08-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2014-08-27 19:00, Julian Thomas wrote: On Aug 27, 2014, at 12:04, Andrea Pescetti wrote: This is exactly the spirit of this list. We very much prefer that users subscribe, and you'll hardly find a link to this list on our site that comes without the recommendation to subscribe. Still, it