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When I click on update and follow the instructions to get to the right menu choice and do the "Download BlackICE Update" I either get nothing or a page full of gobbledegook which looks suspiciously like an executable file displayed as a text file.

This article applies to: BlackICE Defender.

SUMMARY

We think that there is a problem with the way the web-browser caches information about the file. The solution would be to clear your browser's cache, close down the browser, and try again.

DETAILS

The image shows what you might see in this condition. Instead of downloading the program from our web-site, it has actually attempted to display the program. Since the program is binary information, it displays as a bunch of junk.

On Netscape, you might be able to solve this problem by hitting "-Refresh" (i.e. clicking on the refresh button while holding the shift key). This forces the browser to ignore any cached information and refresh on the file.

On Internet Explorer, this is a little bit more difficult. Clearing the entire cache should fix this problem. One customer just looked inside the browser cache for the file (by searching for his license key that is part of the file name). He deleted just that file, and was successful.

Another possibility would be to change the URL so that the browser thinks it is a different file. Add something like "&junk=true" to the end of it in the browser (the update process ignores the extra information).

In short, there are numerous technical ways around the problem, but the probably sure-fire method would be to clear the browser cache and restart the browser.

 
Keywords: update, gobbledegook 
Version:  all 
Fixed:    N/A 
Modified: 1999-12-14 
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