Version 20200412: new packages

[v77]

Against the increasing number of false positives from antiviruses, even for previous releases, I made new packages without SFX modules, because they were the origin of most alerts.
I hope this will now be OK.
All comments are welcome.

[Tr3b G0D]

2 Questions:

1 - make_releases.bat does not create valid release files. The CMD window displays errors that it cannot find files. Is there something missing or I am doing wrong then just running the BAT file?

2 - Is there a way for us to create SFX Modules on our end? Can you include a script?

[v77]

1- Which files?
I changed the location of some files. But the changes are written in readme.txt, so you should easily find what's wrong.

2 - Create SFX modules? But there would be nothing to extract, unless doing several modifications...

By the way, if you wanted to check VirusTotal with the SFX modules, I can tell that the last ones I compiled had almost no alert (usually 1 or 2). As well as each executable of the package... In fact, it's the concatenation of the module with the archive that makes antiviruses panic.
I also tried to use the module provided by the author of 7-Zip instead of my customized one, and no change: still a lot of alerts.

The installation can still be automated. You can pass parameters to config.exe in install.bat, like before with the executable installer.

[Tr3b G0D]

My bad. The README is one file I neglected to look at. I did look and it now and I thought it was going to be simpler. I was just hoping to create the complied files quickly on my end. I have several PCs that I run this Toolkit on and used your previous complied files with a batch file to quickly update my PCs. No worries, I used Winrar to easily create self extracting/installable files.

I use VirusTotal just a s guide and not the bible. I know your files are clean and what other virus apps reported are false positives, so I was not worried. Hope you reconsider adding the compiled files in addition to the ZIP files.

[v77]

install.bat is not in the source. I will fix that.
For the new DiscUtils, Olof has not updated his website yet. It can still be downloaded here:
http://ltr-data.se/files/DiscUtilsDevio_2_1_012.7z
As said in readme.txt, the files must now be placed in the "MountImg" folder.

[v77]

After 6 days, there is now only 1 alert for both the 64 and the 32-bit versions. So I think it should be OK for a good while.
The funny part is to see that there are 12 products that are unable to process a zip file.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3d11bd8d7b58e16cf94e02e0fd251e77008948637f77d973da4379afc4b8df1a/detection

[Crayon]

Works fine upgrading by executing the "install.bat" script. However, since I do clean installs very often (don't ask :-) not sure if imdisk is still using the same switches. Can I simply extract the .cab file to my preferred directory and run this batch script:

@Echo Off
imdisk -a -o awe -s 1024M -m Z: -p "/fs:ntfs /q /y"
cd R:
R:
mkdir r
icacls "Z:\z" /grant Web:(OI)(CI)M
label Z: VRAM
Exit

[v77]

Why do you have to do clean installs very often? ;)

Currently, install switches can be passed to config.exe by editing install.bat. But instead, in a recent ticket, I updated install.bat so that the options can be passed directly to install.bat:

if not "%1"=="7" start /min cmd /c ""%~0" 7 %*" & exit /b
set F=%TEMP%\ImDisk%TIME::=%
extrac32.exe /e /l "%F%" "%~dp0files.cab"
"%F%\config.exe" %2 %3 %4
rd /s /q "%F%"

Of course, this will be included in the next release. For now, you can just replace install.bat by this script.