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Anyone using Blackbird?
Stoic Joker:
All I can think of is google is providing hosting to these guys?-MilesAhead (February 18, 2016, 02:45 PM)
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Their domain name is registered with Realtime Register in the Netherlands, and their IP is on a block owned by (RIPE Network Coordination Centre) a provider in Amsterdam ... That don't sound like Google to me. Also the code in the error message page is nowhere near fancy/nosey enough to be Googles, it looks kinda mom & pop-ish to me.
MilesAhead:
All I can think of is google is providing hosting to these guys?-MilesAhead (February 18, 2016, 02:45 PM)
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Their domain name is registered with Realtime Register in the Netherlands, and their IP is on a block owned by (RIPE Network Coordination Centre) a provider in Amsterdam ... That don't sound like Google to me. Also the code in the error message page is nowhere near fancy/nosey enough to be Googles, it looks kinda mom & pop-ish to me.
-Stoic Joker (February 18, 2016, 03:05 PM)
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Then I have no clue why they would say google did not like their 32 bit exe and had to host it on MajorGeeks. I don't think I'll run the installer for the 32 bit one. Just something wicked this way may come if I do. :)
f0dder:
64bit download fine here, but Windows Defender doesn't like the executable inside the zip...
f0dder:
Looking at the strings dump of the executable, it seems that "b2e" (a batch-to-exe thing) is involved - tools like that (including autohotkey/autoscript) are often flagged as malware because, well, they're often used by scriptkiddies. It also makes sense for a utility like this to have originated as a batch script, since it mostly needs to run system commands, modify registry, possibly delete some files.
So, there's a good chance that Blackbird is legit. Do exercise caution, though. I personally won't be running it, but I'm generally not too fond of stuff that tries to do too many unrelated things :)
MilesAhead:
64bit download fine here, but Windows Defender doesn't like the executable inside the zip...
-f0dder (February 20, 2016, 11:54 AM)
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The two networks I used must have a similar malware filter. One a public library. The other a college. If I try at Starbucks it may download without a hiccup. In any case it doesn't seem to be something I need.
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