I still have a few ideas... But this will make me again lose a fucking time.
By the way, did you have the time to download and try this version (20200402)?
The partition listing should be slightly slower, because of the safeties I added, but in most cases it should not be an annoyance.
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New attempt. We'll try with the UPX compression removed. It was used to reduce the size of the self-extracting module.
Despite it's a popular and open source tool, UPX is known to sometimes create a few false positives.
Currently, there are 2 false positives for the 64-bit release, and 5 for the 32-bit one. I will check that regularly.
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Except the new DiscUtils that currently create 2 alerts, all the rest is the installer itself.
I scanned all my executables separately, and I got no alert at all. So, there is nothing to encrypt...
Besides, unlike for ProxyCrypt, many users of ImDisk Toolkit expect something easy to use, so I cannot ask to enter a password or anything weird like that.
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I repacked the installers because of a file I forgot to remove. I recompiled nothing, so this is exactly the same version.
We'll see if this changes something for the antivirus: we were at 7 alerts for the previous package (in both 32 and 64-bit), we have now 4 alerts (also for both 32 and 64-bit), with Avast for the 64-bit.
Doesn't seem good but who knows?
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Bad news: 9 alerts for the 64-bit version, including Avast and McAfee.
I will wait some hours, at most up to tomorrow, but if this remains as is or if it get worse, I will also remove this version.
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I have no preference on the disk format, so
if splited vmdk+imdisk works, it's fine. (then i can use cppcryptfs)
if cant, i will try splitted raw + AIM, that's also fine. (then i have to use veracrypt,
becoz cppcryptfs give dpc watchdog BSOD error in this case.)
thank you.
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Avast: PUP: Potentially Unwanted Program -> not a virus
McAfee: Artemis: detected by heuristic -> not sure, but in doubt we block it
They are the actual threat: something that prevents the user to use its computer with legitimate softwares, this is the behavior of a virus.
And as many small antiviruses are just copying the results of the big vendors, we sometimes got more than 20 falses positives on VirusTotal.
Anyway, one more time I repacked the installer, with the SFX module compiled as a console application. Console application are always less flagged than GUI applications.
This is ugly, and if the user close the console, uncompressed files will remain in the TEMP folder.
But as long as people will trust more a commercial antivirus (so with great financial interests) than a free and open source software, many problems will remain.
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Due to a lot of antivirus alerts, the version 20200402 has been removed.
And unfortunately, I don't know how I will publish new versions.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/56082b4c590e97a3ee05852d8ff260c26cd71644a240ffcc0921918a7c394ee1/detection
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f4de1bf4e845561dab0d1c56acda83f2c7459c7fa266ef3d03fa2f7d98013301/detection
Sad to hear... it will be an useful software. Anything layman users may help? Thanks
last week still 4xxx download, so the development may be not that active but people are using it!
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I still have a few ideas... But this will make me again lose a fucking time.
By the way, did you have the time to download and try this version (20200402)?
The partition listing should be slightly slower, because of the safeties I added, but in most cases it should not be an annoyance.
hi
ofcoz i am ok to try it.
where can i download it? thanks.
New attempt. We'll try with the UPX compression removed. It was used to reduce the size of the self-extracting module.
Despite it's a popular and open source tool, UPX is known to sometimes create a few false positives.
Currently, there are 2 false positives for the 64-bit release, and 5 for the 32-bit one. I will check that regularly.
i just read your other projects seems also suffer the same problem,
and you simply encrypt the .exe and upload.
i think the same could be done to imdisk?
as long as there is a source code and
that source forge have a MD5 sum, users will be comfortable.
thanks
Except the new DiscUtils that currently create 2 alerts, all the rest is the installer itself.
I scanned all my executables separately, and I got no alert at all. So, there is nothing to encrypt...
Besides, unlike for ProxyCrypt, many users of ImDisk Toolkit expect something easy to use, so I cannot ask to enter a password or anything weird like that.
thank you.
not in hurry for me, even thru i am starting deploying imdisk for my whole archive.
I currently backup 4TB into 4x1TB vmdks.
the method on previous post that splited .vmdk host
cppcryptfs (file based encryption) for google drive for storage is a great idea i think.
saw the new file,
will try and test asap.
thanks again.
I repacked the installers because of a file I forgot to remove. I recompiled nothing, so this is exactly the same version.
We'll see if this changes something for the antivirus: we were at 7 alerts for the previous package (in both 32 and 64-bit), we have now 4 alerts (also for both 32 and 64-bit), with Avast for the 64-bit.
Doesn't seem good but who knows?
i will test the newest package asap, as right now still using old version to upload to cloud.
relax and take care.
Bad news: 9 alerts for the 64-bit version, including Avast and McAfee.
I will wait some hours, at most up to tomorrow, but if this remains as is or if it get worse, I will also remove this version.
hi,
thanks for the efforts anyway,
in my latest reply to the previous thread,
https://sourceforge.net/p/imdisk-toolkit/tickets/25/
currently I may do the same using splitted raw + AIM. (tried up to 450GB)
I have no preference on the disk format, so
if splited vmdk+imdisk works, it's fine. (then i can use cppcryptfs)
if cant, i will try splitted raw + AIM, that's also fine. (then i have to use veracrypt,
becoz cppcryptfs give dpc watchdog BSOD error in this case.)
thank you.
Last edit: ccchan 2020-04-06
Avast: PUP: Potentially Unwanted Program -> not a virus
McAfee: Artemis: detected by heuristic -> not sure, but in doubt we block it
They are the actual threat: something that prevents the user to use its computer with legitimate softwares, this is the behavior of a virus.
And as many small antiviruses are just copying the results of the big vendors, we sometimes got more than 20 falses positives on VirusTotal.
Anyway, one more time I repacked the installer, with the SFX module compiled as a console application. Console application are always less flagged than GUI applications.
This is ugly, and if the user close the console, uncompressed files will remain in the TEMP folder.
But as long as people will trust more a commercial antivirus (so with great financial interests) than a free and open source software, many problems will remain.