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DDOCharPlanner / DDOCharPlannerV4

Dungeons and Dragons Online Character Planner
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Is this a trojan/virus? #35

Closed Kalyndrel closed 6 years ago

Kalyndrel commented 7 years ago

I downloaded and unzipped the program. Upon running it nothing happened. But it shows its running in my Task Manager and even more strangely Task Manager wont let me kill it or end the process?

jonesth3 commented 7 years ago

Sorry to hear about your issues if you could please provide me with more information pertaining to your type of system that you have it may be of some use.

On Oct 18, 2017 12:11 PM, "Kalyndrel" notifications@github.com wrote:

I downloaded and unzipped the program. Upon running it nothing happened. But it shows its running in my Task Manager and even more strangely Task Manager wont let me kill it or end the process?

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Kalyndrel commented 7 years ago

Windows Home Premium 7 Intel i7-3770 CPU at 3.40 GHz 8 GB RAM 64 bit operating system

I downloaded the zipped file from here to my "download" folder. I used 7-zip to decompress it to the same folder and then double clicked the executable. The first time it locked up my computer. I could still see the screen and move the mouse but I couldnt click on anything nor could I even ctrl-alt-del out. I had to unplug and restart my PC. The 2nd attempt didnt lock up my PC but nothing seemed to execute. I checked Task Manager and saw the program was running, but Task Manager wouldnt let me kill it. Again had to restart my computer. At this point I became suspicious, restarted my PC in safe mode and rolled back the PC to a time prior to downloading the program.

jonesth3 commented 7 years ago

Thank you for the info I will download from the server to a Windows 7 machine and temp to see whether ot not it will install properly and get back to you.

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Windows Home Premium 7 Intel i7-3770 CPU at 3.40 GHz 8 GB RAM 64 bit operating system

I downloaded the zipped file from here to my "download" folder. I used 7-zip to decompress it to the same folder and then double clicked the executable. The first time it locked up my computer. I could still see the screen and move the mouse but I couldnt click on anything nor could I even ctrl-alt-del out. I had to unplug and restart my PC. The 2nd attempt didnt lock up my PC but nothing seemed to execute. I checked Task Manager and saw the program was running, but Task Manager wouldnt let me kill it. Again had to restart my computer. At this point I became suspicious, restarted my PC in safe mode and rolled back the PC to a time prior to downloading the program.

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jonesth3 commented 6 years ago

Ok, I have tried installing it on a windows 7 Pro machine I have and I did not have any issues. There are a couple of things that I do have to point out. I ran this from my desktop not from the programs folder, you should be ok running from the download folder windows does not protect that folder that I am aware of. Secondly I did right click on the EXE file and unblock the exe. Windows likes to block unsigned exe files that it does not recognize that have been removed from zip files or copied for another computer. If you have questions if this is a virus please feel free to download the code and run the build yourself. Everything that is in the exe is open for the public to see and compile on Github. Under the release tab there is a zip file for source code. That is the exact code that was used to build the the exe. I do know that from time to time when I get a new version of my virus protection software it tells me that the exe is unknown and may be a virus. When this happens it will slow down the process will it scans every thing. If i approve the exe in the virus protect it will take care of the issue. I do hope this helps you as I program this as a hobby to help others with nothing expected in return. My goal is not to bring harm to anyone bodies computer.