help me test lobby launcher

[oksnoop2]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=46C3D8P2

If you are running windows and rapid could you test this for me. Just save it to you program files/spring folder and run the .exe. It should bring up a cmd. prompt and start downloading conflict terra after that spring lobby should launch. Let me know how it goes. Also don't really know what to call it. Credit goes to forb for showing how to do this.

[lowdive]

Hey snoop... just a question:

Does the file have a trojan?

My freaking AVG detected it as threat: Trojan_ACD or DCJ or something like that.

I'd just like to know if it's my AVG doing crazy stuff (like it usually does), or there is a trojan in it...

Hope you don't mind checking it for me.

[SanadaUjiosan]

I scanned it with Avast! and it came out clean. Good enough for me, someone else can try scanning it with another program if they'd like.

[oksnoop2]

Hmm Norton seems to throw a fit too. Wartender scanned it in ubuntu and said his scan came out clean. I'll go into more detail about it's creation and maybe someone else can shed some light on it.

The .exe was just a .bat file something like (i'm at work so I can't check for sure)

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rapid pin:ct test
clean install -y
springlobby.exe

Then converted that into an .exe using this:

http://download.cnet.com/Bat-To-Exe-Con ... 55897.html\


I was a little concerned by this:

Version: Bat To Exe Converter 1.5.1

"Converts .bat 's into .exe 's but there's a catch...."

by Electrk on November 25, 2010

Pros: It converts .bat 's into .exe 's.

Cons: It infects them with Trojans.

I made a .bat program and converted it to an .exe , I then right-clicked on it and AVG said that it was a Trojan. I made a completely new, entirely harmless .bat file but AVG still detected it as a Trojan.

Summary: It converts .bat 's into .exe 's but it infects them with Trojans. Do not use this program under any circumstances.

Updated on Nov 25, 2010

but forb said not to worry. When i created it my norton AV alerted me, but I trusted forb and cnet more than my norton trial. I don't really know what to do. Anyone have suggestions?

[SinbadEV]

it's probably not that it's a trojan so much as the wrapper has been used to make a trojan so certain AVs tend to treat it as such... in the same way that AVG thinks that every keygen or crack is a trojan.

[knorke]

with some compiler settings, some antivir will see even "hello world" as a virus.
just leave it as a .bat

[oksnoop2]

This thread and this thread http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=24618 are officially mingled.

I can't leave it as .bat it's part of my current/forb's old master plan. Instead of packing an archive of the game into an installer that will be out of date in a matter of hours I wanted to pack this .exe in there there and have the installer put a link to it on the desktop instead of spring lobby. So user clicks on that, starts the launcher.exe which will run rapid, then start spring lobby.

[SinbadEV]

you could probably make a command line app in C#/VB.NET or even perl or C++ or whatever and compile it as an actual exe...

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread30038.html

+

http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.php

=

Profit!

[knorke]

why would you want to do this?
you can create to shortcuts to .bat files just like you do with .exe files.

[oksnoop2]

I do not know how to do this.

[oksnoop2]

ok so two more to scan/test.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y3F6QKBS

[lowdive]

Both of them came in "clean" for AVG...

I tested ct_lobby_starter.exe and right now a command window says "installing Conflict Terra test-869" (right now it's about to finish (97%)).

Okay, after finishing, the console window spouts some ranting about how to use rapid (options) (verb) (argument) where verb is one of idk how many options it's listing there...

All of that ranting apparently because there's no such option as -y. (there's a -y after clean-upgrade command...)

But anyways, it opened springlobby after that.
As a side note, it didn't close itself, is that ok? (the console window)

Idk if you should know this, but I'm on winxp. You still need some vista testers and so.

EDIT:

And ct_lobby_starter2.exe seems to work as well, it spouts the same error ranting on the -y, but it checked that latest version was already dled, and it just skipped it.

[oksnoop2]

hm yeah i clearly did that wrong, but yay i found a compiler that does not freak out your AV, i'll recompile a working rapid bat and test it against my av then release it here for testing once i get home.

EDIT Slow day at work so i went ahead and made a new one, this would should not error out like the last.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MRWBJB1E

[lowdive]

err...

It took the -yes as -y anyways...
Same error as before.

[Forboding Angel]

snoop, you can do anything with a bat file that you can do with an exe of a bat file. I was using exe so that I could hide the updating process from users (so that way a command prompt doesn't randomly pop up starting updates).

And yes, AV can be fairly easilly triggered, but most of the programs that will sound off on it are the ones that have the most number of false positives. Namely, norton and avg. Course if you'[re using norton, you already allowed a virus to root your system, might wanna take care of the major cancer before knocking off the smaller ones.

Thanks to koshi, my original plans have changed a bit tho.

Edit: Snoop, why on earth are you compiling them anyway? There isn't any reason to, unless it's part of an installer and you want it to run silently.

[oksnoop2]

That is exactly my plan. Instead of packing an archive just packing this and rapid.exe and have the installer plop a link to this .exe on my the users desktop.

[Forboding Angel]

Ahhh ok, then that makes sense (that was more or less what I was going to do as well originally). Hmmm, well shit, it isn't elegant, but you could jsut leave the shortcut on the desktop to a .bat. The con is that the user would actually see the updating progress which is ugly

[knorke]

The con is that the user would actually see the updating progress which is ugly

its not ugly, its usefull. .bat to .exe packign is like putting an image into a powerpoint

[Forboding Angel]

The con is that the user would actually see the updating progress which is ugly

its not ugly, its usefull. .bat to .exe packign is like putting an image into a powerpoint

Yes that is true, and a good analogy knorke, however rapid displays a lot of data regarding what it is doing that may confuse users, however, I didn't think about the wrapper causing false positives with AV software.

Also @ snoop, something you need to understand. Just because AV says that something is a virus, does not mean that it is. In the AV world false positives is fairly common. One of the reasons I use avast is because it has the highest marks for the least false positives of any known AV software, and impo, it also has the best passive AV scanner.

In this particular case after seeing the opinions expressed here, I would say that knorke is prolly right, meaning that it would prolly be best to jsut leave it as a batch file. One thing nice about batch files is that they are easy to change, so if a user needed something special you could just tell them the appropriate rapid command to accomplish what they need (like getting an sdd or sdz or getting an old version etc).

[SinbadEV]

The con is that the user would actually see the updating progress which is ugly

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ECHO OFF

Maybe? (I forget what it does with standard out... you could also "pipe" the output to a log file ( " command > log.txt " )... which would serve the added benefit of giving someone something to send in if something went wrong)