Program that requires Strongvault online backup to run.

[cal_tony]

I have a couple of small programs that convert the Movie titles on my Movie hard disks to text files.
To start, the programs they look for Strongvault online backup and since I don't have it installed it indicates an error popup and requires me to cancel or hit an okay popup. It keeps going back and forth for about 4,5 times than they just start up and run fine.

A Google search of Strongvault online backup lists all problems with it and gives the ways to uninstall it so I was wondering how I could give these programs something so they start right up without installing the strongvault.

Tony

[drjtech]

I have a couple of small programs...

... these programs...

Not nearly enough information to go on here. What precisely are the "small programs" and exactly where did you get them?

[DB83]

I am also confused with the remark "convert to text files"

[cal_tony]

One of the programs is called txt Collector. It just appends the files that another program [folder print] creates. Folder print works fine. What it does is create a text file of all the file names on a hard disk.

TXT Collector takes these files and appends them to one master text file listing all my movies.
This is the intro from the readme file from the program

TXTcollector 2.0.2
Copyright (C) 1997-2011 David De Groot
Updates and other freeware: http://bluefive.pair.com/
Frequently Asked Questions: http://bluefive.pair.com/faq.htm


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Intro
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TXTcollector grabs all .txt files from the directory of your choice and
combines them into a new (larger) text file. This can come in handy:
I use TXTcollector myself to grab a CD full of readme's to enable me to
read them all in one go.

As I indicated initially the program tries to configure the strong vault online disk. When it doesn't find the disk

it asks for the file Setup_Strongvault.msi

after a number of attempts it finally starts.

[DB83]

Any program that performs an action but attempts to install another program should be considered suspicious.

I have failed to read anything good about strongvault, which appears itself to be a trojan masquarading as a storage facility.

As for these little programs, there seems nothing about them that can not be handled by a few DOS commands.

For all you know, those messages are there just for you to feel comfortable and you already have trojans in your system.

[cal_tony]

For all you know, those messages are there just for you to feel comfortable and you already have trojans in your system.

Well that's comforting to know. Hadn't thought about that.

Tony

[usually_quiet]

I don't think Strongvault qualifies as a Trojan. It appears to be adware that some free programs install. http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?Name=Adware:MSIL/Strongvault

I would still avoid anything that installs Strongvault because apparently it is often difficult to get rid of when it is unwanted.

[cal_tony]

Thanks to both of you.

My google search did indicate strongvault was something that people that had it were trying to eliminate it and it didn't want to go away very easily.

Glad I didn't allow the program to install the strongvault.

Tony

[drjtech]

As for these little programs, there seems nothing about them that can not be handled by a few DOS commands.

For starters, try something like this to create a text file with filenames on drive D:

dir D: /b/s > listing.txt

Then, use this to append the filenames on drive E: to the same text file:

dir E: /b/s >> listing.txt

You can shake things up a bit by doing things like:

dir D:\*.avi /b/s > avi.txt
dir D:\*.mkv /b/s > mkv.txt

-drj