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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <address@concealed>]

Sorry for answering too quickly. I see that you did the right thing and
got the situation under control.

It happens really rarely, but sometimes the signing process fails and
the error checking does not behave correctly leaving the corrupt
installer. This will be fixed in the next release of CAT.

Tomasz Wolniewicz

W dniu 19.07.2019 o 20:48, Tomasz Wolniewicz pisze:
> Such a situation may happen when something wrong happens during the
> installer signing. I will try to locate the faulty installer and delete
> it from the cache, the new one should be fine. Will let you know when
> this is done.
>
> Tomasz Wolniewicz
>
>
> W dniu 19.07.2019 o 16:16, Robert Franklin pisze:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We had a problem with our Windows 7 installer, first reported on 16th July 
>> (i.e. Tuesday) displaying an error dialog when run, stating:
>>
>>   Installer integrity check has failed.  Common causes include
>>   incomplete download and damaged media.  Contact the
>>   installer's author to obtain a new copy.
>>
>>   More information at:
>>   http://nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
>>
>> This error occurred each time it was downloaded and run, on multiple 
>> different machines (including ones with only the built in Windows 
>> anti-virus software, so I don't think any third party anti-virus software 
>> is to blame).
>>
>> We didn't have this issue with our Windows 10 installer (although the 
>> error will be displayed on Windows 10, if you mistakenly use the Windows 7 
>> installer on it).
>>
>>
>> I found some emails from 23rd October 2017 saying this had happened in the 
>> past which suggested a corrupt version may have been downloaded.
>>
>> In our case, I went to the CAT page for the installer and edited the 
>> profile, made no changes but then saved it.  After doing this, the 
>> downloads all succeed, on the same machines, with an installer that is 
>> 10kB larger (same as the previous report).  My suspicion is that a corrupt 
>> installer was created and cached and editing the profile forced a rebuild 
>> - I don't think the client machine was to blame as all the affected 
>> machines are now working.
>>
>> I have a copy of the installer before and after it being fixed, if they're 
>> of interest - the last broken one downloaded at 14:51 BST (GMT+01) today 
>> (19th July - Friday) and the fixed one at 14:52.  Are they of interest to 
>> investigate this or is it just a spurious problem?
>>
>>   - Bob
>>
>>
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Tomasz Wolniewicz    
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