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NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ
worstje:
Heh, take your time. I am not in a rush with this one myself. :)
worstje:
Version 1.1.0 is out, six months after the initial release. Woo hoo, yay, hurray and all that cheerful babble.
* JottiQ v1.1.0 Installer
* JottiQ v1.1.0 .7z archive
If there is anything else you want to know, check the first post in this topic or see the website. Or simply ask in this topic; I'll be glad to answer any questions there may be.
The JottiQ website still needs a day or two to get polished with regards to this release; I haven't managed to update it as much as I planned to for this release and at this moment, information regarding the new release and its features is decidedly lacking on there.
v1.1.0 (2011-07-01)
Six months after the official release, it is time for a well-deserved
update. Sadly, there isn't much one can improve in a tool with a simple
purpose. However, I hope this new version will entertain.
Added: Forks support. Also known as 'Alternative Data Streams', these
are a well-hidden feature of the NTFS filesystem which provide for
equally well-hidden pseudo-files attached to existing files. Most
programs are unable to read them, no less act on them - which makes
this a feature that truly improves Jotti's malware scan.
Added: Proxy server support.
Added: Connectivity test for troubleshooting issues. Some beta-testers
for this version had problems with proxy server support, but it will
hopefully prove useful for all parties.
Added: A builtin 'whitelist' for forks. The feature is sometimes used
for legitimate reasons, and one of those affects nearly every file
downloaded. The whitelist exists for speeding up processing only;
security-minded (distrusting?) individuals are free to enable the
option that forces these whitelisted forks to appear in the queue.
Added: A 'whitelist fork by name' option. If the precise comparisons on
a possibly whitelisted fork prove troublesome, this enables one to
consider the fork safe by proxy of its name. This feature as a work-
around for 'Zone.Identifier' forks encoded in different formats than
I have been able to test with - so if one finds a 'Zone.Identifier'
fork that is not whitelisted, I request that this forks is saved to a
file and sent to me at: jottiq-whitelist (at) whitehat.dcmembers.com
so I may inspect it and if is found safe, add it to the whitelist in
the next version. TL;DR? Don't enable unless you know you need it.
Added: The queue context menu now offers an Actions sub-menu. These
contain actions that affect the selected objects (files and/or forks)
in the queue physically. There are currently two items in this menu:
- Delete Object(s): This either deletes the selected file(s)
permanently, or it removes the selected fork(s) from the file.
Do note that deleting a file also deletes its forks, but that
deleting a fork on a file leaves the latter intact. I remain of
the opinion that JottiQ is an investigative tool rather than a
cleaner, but... the peoples wishes are clear and forks are hard
to delete, so deleting files is a logical consequence.
- Save Fork As: This saves the contents of a fork to a file. This
does not work for ordinary files as it would be a mere 'Copy'
operation that may or may not bring expectations along with it;
instead it is to be used as an inspection utility for a resource
otherwise difficult to examine.
Added: An 'Add file(s)' feature is now available in the toolbar. It
completely slipped my attention in the 1.0.x versions, for which
my apologies. Rather late than never. :)
Removed: The 'Add Running Processes' functionality is no longer present.
It was determined to be an inappropriate feature that only delivered
half work, and to boot the reason why Jotti's malware scan suffers
such ungodly waiting times during the waking hours of the western
world ever since JottiQ's release.
Fixed: No more crash when down-sizing the amount of worker-threads.
Fixed: Legibility of items on right pane could suffer in certain colour
configurations; now it uses proper system colours where applicable.
Fixed: Zero-byte items were not being removed by the manual nor automatic
'Remove safe items' features.
Fixed: Deleting items from the queue while it was being processed no
longer makes the worker-thread go M.I.A. until it finishes its work
off the screen; it now terminates and moves on to the next item in
the list as soon as possible.
Changed: Uploading should be a little bit more efficient now.
Changed: Fancy progress bars that show upload progress are now in place
as opposed a boring textual description.
Changed: Redesigned the Settings window with clearly named sections and
recognizable icons in order to make JottiQ configuration more
accessible.
Changed: The instruction text in the main screen no longer suggests
one to 'start processing' when processing is already enabled.
cranioscopical:
:up: :up: :up:
worstje:
Version 1.1.1 is now out. No bugs were fixed; but a setting was added to play nice with domains and group policies that mess up the SSL certificate validation of Jotti's malware scan. While Internet Explorer would give you a warning and the option to ignore and continue on your own risk, the .NET framework is quite a bit tougher and more unforgiving in that regard. Thanks go to sujay85 to put up with the small dozen private messages I exchanged with him over the past two weeks, and the test builds that were created as a result. :)
* JottiQ v1.1.1 Installer
* JottiQ v1.1.1 .7z archive
If there is anything else you want to know, check the first post in this topic or see the website. Or simply ask in this topic; I'll be glad to answer any questions there may be.
v1.1.1 (2011-07-12)
Any new version released suffers from a few hiccups, and v1.1.0 was no
different. Thankfully, all this release does is pat the proverbial belly.
Added: A setting that, if enabled, lessens the scrutiny given to the
remote server of Jotti's malware scan to determine its authenticity.
'Ignore certain SSL certificate errors' is only useful on a few
specific configurations, and should not be enabled unless you get an
error like the following in the Connectivity Test:
'The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust
relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel.'
Changed: dcuhelper.exe was updated to v1.10.01 released on July 12, 2011.
sujay85:
Ohh!!! thanks for the update. I failed to notice days in the past two days. :P Great job worstje... :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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