How old is that article? Because this has just started happening today for me.

article is from 12/4/2003.

Ths is something that has just started happening. So unless everybody's settings changed at the same time (possible but unlikely) the trouble would seem to be on the vb.org side of things.

In my case it fails even when doing what msft says is the 'correct' way to do things.

It got corrupted for me too. I try on both of my PC & my laptop and still got same problem.
and i think all zipped files got corrupted.

It's the site. Why might you ask?

Obviously I use vb3, and users uploaded zips. I can easily open those zips using IE (built in). No problem opening them. I came here and found out they are corrupt. *shrugs* I believe it's a site/database problem. The data isn't sent properly, maybe.

Is anyone working on getting this fixxed?

Same problem here.
I have windows xp, IE 6.0 and winzip 9.0

I've been trying to download the zipfile from this hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...9&page=1&pp=15

Haven't had this problem before now.

It worked now. :)

I wish it worked for me.. I am tyring to get this hack, and it says corrupt :(

It seems to work wtih NetScape :D

Working perfect in mozilla. It's IE Only. If you need a hack asap and its in a zip. i would suggest using mozilla.

I think it is a little far fetched to install another browser, just to get any zip file downloaded.
Opening or downloading, both result in corrupt archives...

ANY ZIP!!!

As this makes 50% of the board useless, some urgent admin attention would be imminent :p

Argh can at least a mod reply to this ?

I'm sure Xenon or Logician will look into this as soon as they get a chance to :)

yeah...I was at home using XPSP1...and also I am at the university and its still the same.

Both using latest edition of IE.

I'm not even using XP right now...

I'm using Server 2003 (which isn't apart of the Article - 308090 errors).

And plus, I checked the file types thing, and it was what it should be.

I just started doing this yesterday afternoon, before that it was working fine and dandy.

Granted everything downloads fine and dandy in FireFox.... there's something that's conflicting between the attachments and IE *shrug*

Actually the cause of the issue is both a combination of IE and the dynamic nature of the files on the server. It seems that mod_deflate has decided to start compressing the ZIP files a second time and IE doesn't understand how to deal with a double compressed file so it is storing it in that manner.

Apparently Gecko based browsers, can deal with this just fine and uncompress the file once before storing it on your hard drive.

It is being worked on but the dynamic nature of the files is making it difficult.

How come mod_deflate started do double compress the files all of a sudden yesterday afternoon? An uninstall-reinstall needed?

Then why did this JUST start happening like the other day? It never did this before.

Maybe they've changes some serversettings yesterday?

It's working flawless right now for me using IE and WinXP

Looks like someone fixed the mod_deflate problem...

I can download fine now... Anyone else still having problems?

They must have fixed it. I can open zip files now before downloading. ;)

just checked its working perfect now

Some people can download it seems because the files are still in their cache. I could download older Zips but ALL the new ones i can't. Its like the Download from Vbulletin.org is getting cut off. I am using a direct download, winrar, and Winzip not too mention save target as and everything. All Corrupt Zips Files.

Nope, it works again ;)
No cache issue...

I cleared my cache before I tried to download (the first time after it was fixed), and it worked fine.

Yup, the problem is back for me too.

Pretty sure this isnt fixed, I have just triend unsuccessfully for the past 20 minutes to download the Hangman hack and some of the Arcade games but no luck.

-Jason

i tried to upload the latest arcade zip and its corrupt. *shrug

There seems to be a problem again indeed

Someone alter serversettings recently??

The vBulletin sites were all moved to a new server today so the issue seems to need fixing on the new box too.

i am getting corrupt zip errors =/
i'll try again later

Yup, still getting errors on my end as well.

Yeah, me too. I have tried downloading a few different hacks but just keep getting that error :ermm:

Is there a reason why they don't seem to be taken care of this?

eventually they will. I mean, vb.org or vb.com won't leave us customers empty handed. :p

the files are indeed corrupt, or as said, a security measure is preventing proper download.

vbulletintemplates.org
vbulletin.com
vbulletin.org

i was searching for a copy of vbxirc today, mine got lost somehow...
all archives came up corrupt..

i just tried it with Mozilla firefox, per this thread's suggestions, and it works fine.
here is the winrar 3.30 error using windows xp and i.e. (latest version)

This problem should be fixed now.

Do attachments have to be reattached by any chance? Because some attachments still are corrupt.

EDIT: Nevermind, deleted cookies and files and refreshed and all worked fine. :) (whoa... one too many ands. x_x; )

curiousty, mainly..... what was it?