Hi Mike,

Thanks for dropping in:-)

>Our experience with BoxApp has been that under certain conditions (AntiVirus specially) is that the application will not even install, it gets removed right away, the >Antivirus detects the "embedding" of DLLs and OCX and treats it as a threat. We dropped the use of BoxApp for that reason (I think it was Norton antivirus).

I'll try to be fair on the subject. We had our first test with a boxedapp-ed VFP application last May. Around 20 "corporate users" of "corporate Windows boxes", most of them in "user mode" of course. All of them from distinct companies. These users were, all of them, end-users and they are no administratror rights. Only one single machine did behave that way, aggressive antivirus behaviour - automotive industry if I can remember well.

Since that time, we did install again a couple of times in distinct shops, always in zero-install "user mode" - ie unzipping a directory with the application exe and related material into an arbitrary directory. Et voilà!

Yep we bumped only one time on a serious difficulty at a corporation that also deployed aggressive anti-virus protection patterns. I really do not know whether the virtualizer made thing a bit worse. That's a possibility for sure as for molebox that we used in the past in a similar way and was famous for triggering AVs... But the initial vfp application, refoxed or not, may have triggered the behaviour as well.

Our next step will of course be "windows app code signing". I hope we can expect that to mitigate the anti-virus false-flag issue a tad more:-)

Daniel