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@eL_PuSHeR, weird out of 5 tries I wasn't able to duplicate your results.
But at least it's good news if you stat by ticking the "No thanks" box, it doesn't install anything.
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So K-Lite changed their MPC language files location, here is the update.
[K-Lite Media Player Classic (Lng)*] Section=Language Files Detect=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\mpc-hc.exe Default=False Warning=This will delete all language files excluding the Default language. FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC\Lang|*.*|REMOVESELF FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\Lang|*.*|REMOVESELF
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@eL_PuSHeR: Can you duplicate the dialog that you have seen? I have again uninstalled reinstalled to see anything funny but still I can't.
@Winapp2.ini: I also prefer Media Player Classic over VLC.
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MSE, but I didn't get any warning from the AV; I just saw a new dialog for installing adware while installing K-Lite. After installing it, being careful to untick all pertinent boxes, I run AdwCleaner to see if something would have slipped into my system. Everything is normal.
And yes, it seems portable (or compressed without installer) is the way to go, until someone makes an util to modify installers to get rid of any bundled crap.
Where did you get your installer ?
I just uninstalled my 10.6.5 that I got from Filehippos direct link, reinstalled using Advanced mode, scan my pc and didn't detect anything nor see any new dialogs.
Some av's will warn against the pups but you may have to opt in to that option. This could be because of legal issues in that the bundled apps can take them to court if they auto ban without user approval.
it's a complex world out there.
Some shady ways to put food on the table.
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It seems bundling adware is common trend for "free" software nowadays.
Just a word of warning. Don't forget to tick the box to avoid installing it.
What antivirus do you use ?
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Some entries for TeamSpeak 3, use discretion.
[TeamSpeak3 Themes*] LangSecRef=3022 Detect=HKCU\Software\TeamSpeak 3 Client Default=False Warnin=This will set the Theme to System default FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\styles|*.*|RECURSE ExcludeKey1=FILE|%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\styles\default* ExcludeKey2=PATH|%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\styles\default [TeamSpeak3 Icon Packs*] LangSecRef=3022 Detect=HKCU\Software\TeamSpeak 3 Client Default=False Warning=This may cuase your icons to look funny. To correct Options-->Design-->Icon Pack set to default FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\gfx|*.zip ExcludeKey1=FILE|%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\gfx\default.zip [TeamSpeak3 News*] LangSecRef=3022 Detect=HKCU\Software\TeamSpeak 3 Client Default=False FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\news|*.*|RECURSE
Know this will not be included in .ini that why standalone !
[TeamSpeak3 (Lng)*] Section=Language Files Detect=HKCU\Software\TeamSpeak 3 Client Default=False Warning=This will delete all language files excluding the Default language. FileKey1=%LocalAppData%\TeamSpeak 3 Client\translations|*.qm
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It's a shame how they tried to implement the download manager and ESET all ready detects it as PUA, variant of Win32/InstallerCore.PK
Nice try Filehippo....Right now the direct download link is quite tiny.
Do not think they will make the direct download link any bigger as they WANT you to download their special package.
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Here's a "how it used to be" blast, I wrote my first game (Pacman by chance) in COBOL on a DEC-20 mainframe.
I do miss programming mainframes in Pascal, Fortran, COBOL and Assembler. Those were real men (don't eat quiche) languages.
And who amongst us remembers the 80 column green punch cards we had to punch holes through to give to the 'computer room guys' to run through the card reader to get the code into the mainframe?
Is that a collective HUH? I here from all the gen X's and Y's...
My first understanding of programming was with the help of Pascal then Delphi and now VB.Net.
At the collage where I did some studding, they still teach students how to work with punch cards....
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And that baby ran on the Z80 which was the first chip we programmed on in Uni with Assembler.
Ah, the glory days of computing.
I've still got my Programming the Z80 manual on my bookshelf.
All these things are a forgotten world to the kids of today with Pacman right there on their phones - on their phones for god sake, how cool is progress.
No more asking Mum to drive you down to the arcade.
So mta you are one of the "ancient" programmers..... .
On behave or all man kind, "ancient" programmers, thank you for giving Pacman and more on our phones.
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
All though this may seem like a good idea, look at the dilemma.
They would have to support all phone types. They cant be selective in what phone to support and not.
If not mistaken there are numerous discussion about phone support that answer your question.But the short awnser is "No, Recuva doesn't have phone support"
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The bundling started quite a while ago. Here is a thread I made about it
Thanks Haz, looks like it's one of the posts I missed .
Found it strange as I have downloaded a couple of things from SF lately but never ran in to this one before until now.
Looks like times are getting tough if most of the portals are including adware.
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So I download some software from Sourceforge and my AV (ESET) gos mad and warns me about some variant of Win32/InstallCore.PO. I also noticed the file icon from Sourceforge is "SF".
Downloaded the software from the site itself and nothing, no warnings and the icon is the standard windows application icon.
Uploaded both files to VirusTotal and here is the results
Sourceforge file
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/710d348f260148dbec289a1afa13fc4f81c563d19cd274c472cd9427546516cd/analysis/1406930031/Direct Link file
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/d7de4affcf24c5025a3526bcff94f595d7af361e4b2ef848331eafd37e927f4a/analysis/1406928539/
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I don't understand, what is that machine? Why has the paper got holes in???
(Yeah right, I wished I was too young to not know )
I beat someone would have asked that questions !!!
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Glad it worked even after ~4 days.
My habit is, when I want to run BF, I run CC first and let BF run over night.But in my case it doesnt take as long as yours did, due to my partitions are a lot smaller. For example my OS partition is only 60gb.
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USB Flash Drive Tester
Flash card/drive tester allows testing of any removable media including SD, MMC, CF, USB flash pen drives for bad or unstable sectors. Especially useful for testing for fake sizes often seen on low quality USB pen drives.
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Firefox 31
Mozilla yesterday released Firefox 31, patching 14 vulnerabilities, debuting a search box on the new tab page and adding a Google-provided service that detects and blocks known malicious files before they're downloaded.
http://www.itnews.com/search-engines/81455/mozilla-ships-firefox-31-adds-search-new-tab-page
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
Have a look in your Registry.
You can try CCleaner registry cleaner to remove some entries, IT'S STRONGLY recommended that you make a backup of the entries if prompt to do so. -
and to aid the process further, running DF with the PC in Safe Mode should give even faster results as background tasks will not be running.
That is one good point.
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So I did a small test, simple setup. Created a batch file that creates files, a lot of files.
While the batch was creating the files I ran CCleaner Analyze. The Analyze took incrementally longer and longer to complete.Question, Did you run any downloads, have any open Browsers, moving files or removing files while you ran the Analyze ?
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@Hav0c:
How one antivirus classifies OpenCandy versus another i.e.; no detection doesn't necessarily make it a bad antivirus in my opinion. I would really dislike an antivirus claiming it as being infected outright and not allowing me the choice to install something when in fact it isn't infected. Some software offer a portable version that's zipped with no adware whatsoever, however the install version may have adware.
OpenCandy is very easy to stop by using the /nocandy switch on the installer (Example: C:\Setups\setup.exe /nocandy) and/or by installing with no established Internet connection.
We have to remember that all of the popular free antivirus' use a form of in-built advertising (or "upselling" they'd prefer us to call it now) themselves; Avast, Avira, AVG, Panda, etc.
@ Avdavari:
I do not disagree with your statement at all, don't get me wrong.
I would also dislike any antivirus that does not allowing me the choice to install something being infected or not. You are correct in stating that the portable version does not ship with adware and that it's installable versions that does.
But how many users know they have to add the /nocandy parameter, let alone know how to implement it ?
If the build in advertisements are standalone files they can be deleted/detected one just have to look hard for them.
There are in most cases a workaround, the bigger question is, does one have to time to find it ?
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Hey there and welcome to the forum.
This may be a shot in the dark,
I have noticed from your screen shot your primary partition (OS C:) current usage stands at 743.2 (87%). That is a lot of files.
The first thing that Defraggler does is build a Index of ALL the files on the partition you want to Defrag.
Now according to, number of files and Index building time ratio, the more files you have the longer it will take to build the Index of ALL the files. The less files you have the faster the Index building process takes.Just give it time and do not open and close applications while trying to Defrag the partition. As this could delay the building process and in some cases corrupt the file being defrag.
Something that you can try if you haven't already.
Setup CCleaner and run it, this will remove all junk files lessening the amount of files to be Indexed.
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Thanks LuLu.