re Subject: Solution for windows users

[Shevek]

On 8 January 2011 16:10, Kevin Reilly <getiplayer at denali.org.uk> wrote:
> On 08/01/2011 15:51, Shevek wrote:
>
>> I installed using get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe and "out of the box" it
>> doesn't work
>
> [...]
>
> This is interesting, but doesn't really get to the bottom of what changed
> earlier in the week. Most of we Windows users have probably been running
> that "out of the box" setup for months with no problem until a few days ago.
>
> The only other thing that had changed on this system that might have been
> a factor is that I upgraded from Microsoft Security Essentials v1.x to v2
> the day before the problems stared. Suspecting this may have been a factor
> I did my best to disable some of its more invasive scanning options but
> I'd be lying if I said I was 100% certain it was all switched off. It
> hooks fairly deeply into the OS and I'm not even sure if it generates
> logs, let alone where it keeps them.
>
> Once I started reading here I noted similar issues from people running
> various flavours of Linux, so concluded that the Security Essentials thing
> was probably a coincidence and that the change had been at the BBC end.
>
> Having said that, did any of the other Windows users with the download
> problems happen to have upgraded their MSE around the same time?

My MSSE updated to v2 on 26th Dec