Python-2.3b1.exe install error on W98se

[Anton Vredegoor]

anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton Vredegoor) wrote:

>A message box popups almost immediately:
>
><message box>
>Install
>
>Could not initialize installation. File size expected=1972043840, size
>returned=9096924. The parameter is incorrect.
>
>		OK
></message box>

I finally traced the problem to an infection with the virus
W95.spaces. As Cruyff might have said, there was an advantage to the
virus, because the error message it produces for certain installer
executables contains a very distinctive number. This post is probably
the first google hit for this number that connects it to the virus.

The virus is said to corrupt the master boot record every first of
June each year, so anyone intrigued by this number in the same way as
I have been in the past few weeks should take the necessary steps
soon.

For example:

	To detect it: http://www.free-av.com/ave.htm

	To remove it: http://www.viruskiller.nl/avx (also
        desinfects all exe's, might not be what you want)


Anyway, the problem is solved now, I downloaded and installed
Python-2.3b1.exe. Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this.
Now to the subject of writing anti virus tools in Python ...

Anton