Our University uses Trend Micro Office Scan and in the last few weeks it keeps blocking boinc uploads as High Risk Malicious. Any idea on how to avoid this? The example is astropulse but I believe it has also been seti. No problem at home where I use a different application.

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It is flagging it because they have it on a round robin server instead of straight off the normal server. SETI does it with all new application releases to relieve the pressure on the normal server.

http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu.nyud.net

The key is the bolded part, Trend Micro thinks that the it is malicious because of the URL redirect.

try this one as a direct download and then install it manually.

http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/download_fanout/astropulse_5.03_windows_intelx86.exe

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Apparently the system adds the same info to the URL and gives me the same block. I tried it by clicking the link, typing the link, and copying to text file and then copy/paste the link.

The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy.

URL: http://boinc2.ssl.berkeley.edu.nyud.net/sah/download_fanout/coral/astropulse_5.03_windows_intelx86.exe

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I just went into the file server and clicking on the link it redirects to the other server as well.

Usually you have to wait for a week before they remove the redirect or talk the campus IT personnel into adding the url to the approved list(like that will happen).

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Suddenly today 2 Astropulse tasks downloaded through the Office Scan. I have no idea - maybe they accepted my request citing the NSF funding etc for Boinc.

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Suddenly today 2 Astropulse tasks downloaded through the Office Scan. I have no idea - maybe they accepted my request citing the NSF funding etc for Boinc.

More likely. Seti turned off the redirect temporarily to stop the DOS effect on the servers.

They turned off the coral cache yesterday morning to help the server overload problem.

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They turned off the coral cache yesterday morning to help the server overload problem.

The Coral Cache was supposed to help with bandwidth problems, but too many ISPs and firewalls block redirected downloads, causing more usage of bandwidth instead of less bandwidth usage.

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