The Civil 3D group within Autodesk has moved impressively quickly in providing a partial solution to the language pack problem I described earlier. What has been provided so far is a set of patches for Civil 3D 2009, 2010 and 2011 that allow Civil 3D users to remove the spurious language pack flag by [...]
 22 July 2010, 9:59 am |  One comment | Tags: Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2011, Hotfix, Language Pack, Virus | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Bug, Customer Service, Other Autodesk Products, Win If you install Civil 3D 2011 using the ANZ (Australia/New Zealand) profile, when you start it up for the first time, you will see a large warning indicating that the drawing requires an Asian language pack to be installed. It also warns that this is a symptom of the acad.vlx virus: Now I [...] 19 July 2010, 4:06 pm |  6 comments | Tags: Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2011, Language Pack, Virus | Category: Bug, Customer Service, Customisation, Development, Fail, Interoperability, Other Autodesk Products As I mentioned in my last post, I had some reservations about the code provided by Autodesk to deal with suspect acad.vlx and logo.gif files. Based on a suggestion from Jimmy Bergmark, I have written my own, safer version which you can download here: clean_virus_safe.lsp. The comments at the top of the clean_virus_safe.lsp file [...] Shaan Hurley has posted some useful information about another AutoCAD-based virus that is doing the rounds, and I strongly suggest you read it. However, I have some reservations about the solution that is posted there and in the Autodesk knowledgebase. The LISP code suggested will delete any files called acad.vlx or logo.gif that are [...] 10 August 2009, 4:58 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, Malware, Other Blogs, Shaan Hurley, Tip, Virus, Warning | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Bug, LISP, Other Blogs, Tip There is a piece of malware out there written as an ObjectARX application, i.e. it will only affect AutoCAD users. It’s a China-based adware client, which Andrew Brandt at the Webroot threat blog has named Trojan-Pigrig. For full details, see here. Also, see here for AutoCAD-specific advice from the AutoCAD support team at the [...] 9 July 2009, 10:08 am | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, Malware, Other Blogs, Tip, Virus, Warning | Category: AutoCAD, Other Blogs, Tip |
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