Bank Genie
Software for Managing Bank Accounts

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Bank Genie 4 and Bank Genie Pro 4
Last updated: 28th February 2018

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Index

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

User Guide Options

Bank Accounts

Bank Groups

Categories

Category Groups

Tags

Manage Transactions

Standing Orders

Process Standing Orders

Online & Downloads

Transaction Analyser

Net Worth

P&L Years and Groups

P&L Reports

Invoices

Password Protection

Database Protection

Quick Backups

Backups (with history)

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack

Importing Data

Broken Transfers

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

Sponsored Links

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Q: Why do I get a warning message from my Anti Virus program when I download my software
Some new customers have reported seeing the message as shown in this screenshot
(or similar) as issued by their Norton/Symantec antivirus program  when downloading the Bank Genie software.
A:
What to do: Please choose the option to Run this program anyway.
If your Anti Virus program issues a dialog box which has the same type of warning but with different options, please choose to Allow the software to be downloaded or to be run, or otherwise Continue .

More info:
When More details is pressed this message appears
We contacted Symantec when this message first occurred and managed to get both the Bank Genie and Bank Genie Pro downloads whitelisted (i.e. cleared as a safe download by Symantec/Norton).
This took a number of days.
It got worse! Our research led us to the conclude that this solution would not guarantee that the “dire warning” message would never appear again since a)Users would have to ensure that their definitions were up to date, to avail of the most recent whitelist and b) the fix would only apply to those with Symantec/Norton anti virus software (we had a similar report from a user of another Anti Virus program) c) the whitelisting was only valid for that build release.
Since we make frequent updates to our software and since we would have to reapply each time we made a change, we decided that the delays were unworkable and too big demanding on our resourses.

A single program update means that our software has to start all over again to build a reputation on that new release.
Norton appears to start from scratch with the new release and will display the embarrassing message that Fewer than 5 users in the Norton community have used this file.
The change could be due to an enhancement per a user request or even a simple cosmetic change.
Life is tough!


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