Client HACKED?

well i got into the beta and its all good, downloaded the newest client the 11meg one and i couldnt play earlier because it was down, told me i have to try between 14:00-23:00 Pacific Time or something like that, so now its 4:36 Easter Time so im like hell ill give the beta a try, so its about to load right and its 5% loading and says there is some new update to download so i click ok and this so called patch or whatever just turns into some little DOS programing with the cursor going CRAZY and the printer starts just spitting out blank sheets of paper

hi I am having a simular situation going on. I logged on then hit the connect button and I got a message box asking if I wanted to upday. Then a DOS box pops up. Right now the cursor is just popping all over that window and nothing is realy happening. I don't think this a hacking problem but perhaps something more to do with the coding of the patch.
Please let me know if this is suppose to be doing this or if I need end the patch and just log on as usual.
Thanks

hey i pressed NO to not updated and started loading except then i got the please try between this and this time

hmm.. well 5.2 is up today, maybe (?) thats what you got.
Login server opens at 2pm PST, sounds like you tried at 1:36 PST since Eastern time (not to be confused with Easter time) is 3 hrs later.
No clue about the printer... gremilins?

yup I went to downloads, SL Client and downloaded the current ver. I signed in no prob.

yes the times i still have screwed up, for freaking sakes for some reason i switched pacific and central time

thats right people you have a genius testing this game
did 5.2 come out today? cuz i just downloaded the client today and it reads 5.1 so maybe i downloaded it before 5.2 came out.

Wow. Did it really make your printer spew out sheets of paper?

The automatic updater is supposed to open a small window that displays how much of the new version has been downloaded. When it's done, it should automatically launch the installer. Since that isn't what happened to you, it sounds like we've got some bugs.

If possible, can those of you who are having problems with the auto updater please mail the following information to [email]support@lindenlab.com[/email]?

Operating system.
Free space on your hard disks.
Size of your hard disks.
Amount of RAM.
The title of the mysterious DOS window that pops up, if it has one.

That would be a big help for us.

Mark I have just sent the email with the required info and an attached image. I dont know how much the image since its not in motion

Haha the same thign happened to me when I went to run SL. A message popped up asking me to update my version, I clicked yes, my DOS screen popped up and my printer went nuts. Idid this at 4:20pm Pacific Time.

I sent an email about it as well.

I forgot to mention before that (as a workaround) you can always download the current version from secondlife.com if the automatic downloader breaks.

This happened to me too, start, "yes" to download new version, DOS window. I closed all other applications and looked at my network status, I was downloading something very slowly, on the order of 100-50 bytes /sec.

Glad to know it wasn't just me (not that I'm pleased that people are having problems, that always bites).. email sent, Mark!

My new download dosen't seem to be happening any further than DOS either. I'll try DL it from the sight.

It is not a hacked file, scan comes out clean so don't worry there.

Here is some more info about the "bug", and what it actually does. When everyone downloads the update file (thru autoupdater), and runs the update file automatically (file "7E7.exe", it set the cursor at random locations on the DOS screen, over and over again. It is like someone forgot to end a Loop statement in the updater. Check this executable on the server or the source code of this updater for bugs.

If the server exe cleans out fine, I can send u a copy of the file that is stored in my temp folder. Too bad my hex editor does not work casue I would try and find the problem out myself between this updater file and past ones....uh u did not hear that from me. *cough* *cough*

well i wasnt worried if id get a virus or what cuz damn only god knows how many times i have been virused...and i mean i if i get hacked i get hacked no way to prevent and awesome hacker from doing what he wants anyways...ill just go and cry like a little girl

you said its in your temp file but i couldnt locate mine it kept changing names also for some reason. plus i just downloaded the 11meg client today so i was surprised that an update was up and about before i even got a chance to test this one, although since servers are down at those times they prolly working on new bugs 24/7 so it shouldnt be that much of a surprise

thanks for the help everyone

I can't log on at all today. I keep getting the 'server isn't responding, please try back in a couple minutes' message.

i almost got the same problem... except it tried printing to my network printer, and the print server was off, so i got an error

but i just downloaded the latest version off the site, and it updated fine.

GO NULLSOFT INSTALLER!!! w00t!!!

I think this was supposed to go here:

Try hitting the "help" button on a script window. That brings up DOS Goofy SL, you're so goofy!!

Yep, this was supposed to go into this thread. Too many things going on today.

my printer is totally screwed because of that patch, i uninstalled it and installed it again and still the same problem, uninstalled client 5.1 and installed client 5.2 and still the same problem, there is no way i am reformating my HD's for this problem.

how do i fix this???

A more in depth description of 'totally screwed' could be helpful. Is it on fire? Constantly spewing out pages and pages of cuss words? All the lights on it constantly blink? Is it dripping ink on the floor as we type?

I know its frustrating, but when trying to get help the more information you give, the more better help you will get. If that's not the case.... my car is making a funny noise, what can you do to fix it?! I've tried restarting it and filling it with gas. I even got the oil changed!

not trying to be an A-hole but the reason i havent said anything here is because im the one that started this topic, so instead of typing it all again i just said that im still having the problem and does anyone know how to fix it.

is it on fire though? might as well be

Ahh so then it is spitting out paper continuously still? Is that all that is happening?

I'm not sure in what way the printer is screwed, but before you reformat your hard drive, you might try uninstalling and reinstalling your printer driver.

Just a thought,
Aaron