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ginopatrassi

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coault.exe certificate problem
« on: October 28, 2013, 09:13:24 pm »
Hi guys, suddenly my windows says me that coault.exe has no a valid certificate so i cannot run GSX on my FSX due to this problem.
tryed to uninstall and reinstall your product with a clean addon-manager setup.
Any idea?
Thanks!

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2013, 09:18:39 pm »
Hi guys, suddenly my windows says me that coault.exe has no a valid certificate so i cannot run GSX on my FSX due to this problem.

That's because something has modified the executable on your system, corrupting the certificate. The whole point of having digitally-signed files, is that you will know if a file is not the same as it's supposed to be, and something on your system has changed it.

The most likely cause is the antivirus has corrupted the file, mistakenly detecting the executable as a thread and trying to "heal" it.

As explained in many other threads, you should install with the antivirus disabled, and configure the antivirus to exclude the following files from scanning before launching FSX:

YourFSXFolder\bglmanx.dll
YourFSXFolder\fsdreamteam\couatl\Couatl.exe


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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2013, 08:39:24 am »
Grazie Umberto,
But i don't have any antivirus...

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2013, 11:47:49 am »
But i don't have any antivirus...

Then you can't be sure you don't have a *real* virus. Sorry, but there's no way out of it: if the Digital Signature reports as not valid, the file HAS been modified by something on your system, and it's not like we distribute it anymore.

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2013, 12:05:03 pm »
May a Crash or a BSOD be a cause for a fuel corruption?

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2013, 12:18:23 pm »
May a Crash or a BSOD be a cause for a fuel corruption?

Not by itself but, if you have an hardware failure, or just a file-system corruption like lost sectors, etc, it could of course affect any file.

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2013, 12:45:19 pm »
Do you think that reinstalling all of the fsdreamteam product and add-on manager could  solve the problem?

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Re: coault.exe certificate problem
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2013, 12:59:39 pm »
Do you think that reinstalling all of the fsdreamteam product and add-on manager could  solve the problem?

Yes, if your hardware is not failing.