Subject Re: dbase2019 not working From JBumatay <jedheart@protonmail.com> Date Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:25:37 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started All, I just started getting this error, dBASE 2019 Executable has stopped working It came out of nowhere. It was running. Then I shut the program down and started it later. I do not use the mentioned anti-virus ware. I use the Microsoft Defender. Any other ideas? I already tried re-install. I looked at the .ini too. Also, I thought I would download any updates I might have missed from dbase, and Microsoft has been reporting the download file as an unknown file type. I am reporting to Microsoft, on their page that this file is known to me. Feedback to Microsoft Download you are reporting: https://www.dbase.com/downloads/dBASE201900b2618Full20200218.exe Copied from their report page for example: Please select an option I think this is a safe website I am the owner or representative of this website and I want to report an incorrect warning about this website Language used for the download: English Language used on the website: Enter the characters you see New  |  Audio Visual Challenge Their return page reply: Thank you for submitting your feedback. Me: I am wondering if the Microsoft safety mechanisms are now flagging all files that they do not know and triggering this issue with not allowing the executable to run. Gaetano D. Wrote: > On 08/07/23 00:14, Tom wrote: > > I will try doing that, but I do not think that is the problem!  If I boot my computer up and select something dBase, it will work.  But, if I let it boot all the way, it will not work.  I believe that there is something in the start up, towards the end, that somehow takes away the ability to work dBase. > > As Ken hinted, try disabling your anti-virus for a start. Also check the > Windows Event Viewer for any hint about what is happening. > > If dBase has been working fine on that computer for some time, it has to > be an external factor that is causing the issue (or a hardware issue, > but that is less likely). Anti-viruses have many times caused that issue > (Trend Micro and Bit defender as far as I am concerned, Sophos as far as > others are concerned). If you are in a Corporate setting, ask your IT > support if anything could cause a program to be recognized as a threat > in any new security software they have deployed recently. You can ask > them to whitelist the dBase executable if possible. > > -- > Gaetano. >