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Re: Cisco Security Agent vs. Authorware Web Player

Subject: Re: Cisco Security Agent vs. Authorware Web Player
From: "Amy Blankenship-Adobe Community Expert"
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:38:44 -0600
Newsgroups: macromedia.authorware


"Tarrkid" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> One of our customers is trying to use some of our Authorware-based 
> eLearning on
> their SABA-based LMS.  The customer complained that launch time was 
> extremely
> slow - taking five minutes, and their bandwidth is plenty healthy.
>
> Sounded to me like the web player was being downloaded each time - the 
> longest
> delay was at the very outset of launching - so we did some 
> investigating...  I
> had him looking for webplr.exe to see if it was persisting after he closed 
> the
> web browser, and this is what we've found...
> [Q]It is being detected by our Cisco Security Agent as an untrusted
> application[/Q]
> He did eventually find webplr.exe where it's supposed to be, but commented
> thusly:
> [Q]The problem is we don't have access as employees to view that folder. 
> One
> reason I was having trouble finding it.[/Q]
> I think that part's a red herring - although he wasn't able to browser the
> folder, webplr.exe was obviously running from there, since my content was
> running.  But what about the Cisco bit...?
>
> It seems odd that CSA would call webplr.exe an untrusted application, but
> still allow it to run, and then apparently delete it once they closed the
> browser.
>
> Has anyone had experience with Cisco Security Agent, or have any other 
> clues
> as to where I might head to solve thsi problem?

I think you might be looking in the wrong direction.  The Authorware Web 
Player is not big enough by itself to justify five minutes unless they are 
on dialup.  I think it is more likely that your media and other external 
files are being deleted.

I think the reason the user had a problem finding the web player file is 
that most Windows machines come from the factory hiding system folders (and 
file extensions!).

-Amy 



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