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HACKERALERT / Picocrypt

A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.
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Application crashing/exiting continuously #144

Closed Wffv9FNa closed 1 year ago

Wffv9FNa commented 1 year ago

I'm having an issue where Picocrypt keeps closing after around 20 seconds. This happens regardless of whether an encryption/decryption is happening or not. Does this application write logs anywhere as I'm unsure what is causing this? I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19044) and using the latest 1.31 .exe stable release. Steps to recreate:

  1. Launch Picocrypt.exe
  2. Wait 10-20 seconds
  3. Application exits with no message or error
HACKERALERT commented 1 year ago

Thanks for reporting this issue. I'm not sure what's happening since I can't recreate the issue. Picocrypt is portable so it doesn't leave any logs, but you can see what caused the crash if you run it in the command prompt. So, trying opening a command prompt in the same folder and run "Picocrypt.exe" and show me the output. Thanks!

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 6:33 p.m. Wffv9FNa @.***> wrote:

I'm having an issue where Picocrypt keeps closing after around 20 seconds. This happens regardless of whether an encryption/decryption is happening or not. Does this application write logs anywhere as I'm unsure what is causing this? I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19044) and using the latest 1.31 .exe stable release. Steps to recreate:

  1. Launch Picocrypt.exe
  2. Wait 10-20 seconds
  3. Application exits with no message or error

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Wffv9FNa commented 1 year ago

I've ran the executable from command prompt but unfortunately no output was given. I also ran ProcMon but again no real output of interest that I can see. I have a suspicious there must be some software conflict as I've just left it running on my laptop and so far it hasn't exited.

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HACKERALERT commented 1 year ago

Yeah that's very weird. If it's an issue with Picocrypt, then there should be errors logged to the command prompt, but there aren't, so it's likely an issue on your side. Try whitelisting Picocrypt in your antivirus and updating your Windows before trying again. Maybe also try an older version of Picocrypt. Other than that though, I don't think there's much I can do about it 😅

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 7:18 p.m. Wffv9FNa @.***> wrote:

I've ran the executable from command prompt but unfortunately no output was given. I also ran ProcMon but again no real output of interest that I can see. I have a suspicious there must be some software conflict as I've just left it running on my laptop and so far it hasn't exited.

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Wffv9FNa commented 1 year ago

So it seems antivirus was the culprit after all. Despite being whitelisted the AV was obviously still killing the process anyway as I've just tested completely turning off the AV and Picocrypt has stayed open. (AV is Webroot SecureAnywhere). Thanks for responding! :)