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General Software Discussion / Re: A Trojan in "Captain.exe" ?!

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 12:17 PM »

follow up:
we need to fix skrommels compiled ahks and remove the upx right away, if there are this many antivirus tools falsely flagging these, this just confirms that the antivirus companies have effectively made it impossible to ever use UPX to pack anything again.  i feel horribly for UPX because this is deeply unfair to them, but as i said in this post, it is simply impossible to use UPX without getting massively and repeatedly flagged improperly as being a trojan -- there is no other solution at this point but to absolutely forbid the use of upx on any program uploaded to DC.

anyone associated with UPX who wants my help fighting the antivirus companies to get them to stop this outrageous (and perhaps legally liable for damages) behavior, just ask.  but until they do stop, we have no choice but to outlaw the use of upx on any dc related software, immediately.  the damage to the site is just too high.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Trojan in "Captain.exe" ?!

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 12:08 PM »

ok, thank you.

• this is almost certainly a false positive, triggered not too unfrequently on compiled scripts written in the autohotkey language.  there is no virus or trojan.  it's a false alarm.
• you can download the source .ahk file from that same page and run it without it being compiled at all, if you are wary.
• usually we see only 1 stupid antivirus program flagging a compiled ahk as dangerous.. this time its a ton of them.. i suspect that it's because skrommel has build these so long ago.  it's DEEPLY troubling and fills me with anger at these antivirus companies for being so damn stupid and lazy to do this.  i simply can't express how irresponsible it is for them to generically flag programs as viruses just because they were compiled with a certain packaging program.  but i've ranted against this for so long in so many posts i'm just exhausted from it.
• i will try to get skrommel to rebuild his ahks so these alerts stop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A Trojan in "Captain.exe" ?!

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 11:46 AM »

two questions:

1) where is captain.exe from and what is it?
2) can you give us the url virustotal gives you where it displays its report so we can see?

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Living Room / Re: In the "What the Hell?" department...

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 11:29 AM »

they should give the badge to scouts who can successfully simulate and reproduce video games in the wild using only twigs and rocks.  such scouts are providing a service to their fellow brethren whose batteries run out while on long camping trips.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 11:15 AM »

the upper corners are rounded in the new SC one, just not the lower ones.. but that's because of the theme change issue tht f0dder points out.

anyway, the new method should solve it stay tuned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS feed editor

« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2010, 10:27 AM »

actually i'd be interested in knowing about such software as well.

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Living Room / Re: Apple instigates Police Raid over lost/stolen iPhone 4G

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 08:14 PM »

i find some satisfying irony in this story of so-called "journalists" who are literally losing their minds with orgasmic anticipation and apoplexy, and willing to shell out thousands, just to have the possibility of getting a sneak peek at some new apple-product-in-production, and then being treated so poorly by the very company they are so damn obsessed with.

perhaps they would be better served by calming down a bit about the next un-released apple product, and just wait till the damn thing comes out.  hey guys -- these devices aren't filled with magic beans and they don't unlock the secrets of the universe.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 06:58 PM »

although the problem is seen with klipkeeper, the problem isn't actually in klipkeeper, it's in the other (fscript) plugin.
for fix see https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18622.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 06:32 PM »

bingo.
i dont know if its klipkeeper per se, but there is a known conflict with klipkeeper and other fscript plugins with older dlls.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 06:03 PM »

i dont have windows search installed so its hard for me to test.
but if you install the non-beta (just install over beta), you dont get the error?

or let me ask differently, are you 100% sure you didn't change anything else (or install any other plugins) that could be responsible for the new error?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 05:44 PM »

idont think that can be the new farr beta doing that.  i'd love to have real confirmation that using the older farr exe gives dif result.  it sounds like a dif conflict with the plugin..
BUT if it is the new farr beta.. then i need to know.

can anyone else confirm or refute?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Bug with the "below normal" , "above normal" , "real time" priorities

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 04:53 PM »

this thread is to my everlasting shame
ok let me try to fix once again.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 04:28 PM »

i forgot to say.. this thread now officially qualifies as a rare "SKROMMEL SIGHTING" !!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Powerpoint sucks - what to use instead?

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 04:26 PM »

maybe someone can make a powerpoint plugin that prevents you from changing the style of a chart and forces you to base it on the single master chart style (or from a set of approved ones).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Source Code / Code Snippet Manager

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 03:50 PM »

The CodeBank author (Nikola Dachev) looks like he has created a few nice programs: http://www.zeraha.org/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 03:44 PM »

does it force it to close on startup -- ie refuse to even load it?
if so, blame dc member ewemoa: he forced me to add a feature where if the plugin returned false from the Initialization function then FARR considers it to be reporting that it cannot be loaded.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 03:19 PM »

dont forget you can also always write an alias yourself whose result is simply to modify what you type to format it the way the fscript plugin expects.

so if you have a plugin (or another alias) that normally triggers on "pleasepingawebsite (.*)" but you want to save yourself some typing, you could always create your own custom alias that matches "p (.*)" whose result is: "dosearch pleasepingawebsite $$1"

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Measure sizes

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 02:34 PM »

SC has a powerful system for adding external programs to the TOOLS menu and toolbar..
so the main question for me is, do you think there is an existing free ruler that can be configured to work well with sc and just added to the tool menu, or do you think there is a reason it needs to be custom built into SC itself.

for example, i use the ColorCop free color picker tool configured in the Screenshot Captor TOOL menu to fill my color picking needs.. i could build one into screenshot captor, but what's the point when another tool does it just as well?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 02:32 PM »

the idea of having a topic cloud and a start page showing latest coding snacks, reviews, hot topics, i think has a lot of merit, and could be in keeping with the idea of having nice "VIEWS" into the existing content.

i like the idea of an improved starting page that shows latest and useful stuff in different categories..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 11:58 AM »

i will have new transparency capture method soon, but why do you say "still no good"? looks pretty good to my eyes.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Friendly 404

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2010, 03:25 AM »

i think the image of cody on pirate ship looking through his telescope would be a good 404 base image with some minor modifications.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2010, 10:51 PM »

no i did! i just realized that there is a fundamentally less-kludgeish way to do this.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2010, 10:30 PM »

try increasing the 2 numbers a bit (try like 80,20).

but really you can just wait for my next major transparency mechanism.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2010, 09:58 PM »

Also, for the life of me I cannot work out why there's a black border around the image.

see the new transparent window capture options tab, it has an option that adds a border by default.

the active window (using Alt-PrtScr) is captured in Aero Basic mode

yes, i will be addressing this next.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: no text in the image

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2010, 08:29 PM »

i believe i may have found the problem with this on win7.. i should have an update this week with a fix.