I have some useful softwares (for example an "activator") that some antivirus will alert. The software is actually not a virus; the software does its job according to its design and is not a virus. If I put this software on the cloud (for example email attachment or hotmail One Drive), the cloud server will often not allow uploading or downloading this kind of software, even if it is in a rar file.
My question is: if I put this software in a password protected rar file, will the cloud allow upload/download the software? My goal is to park certain software in the cloud for backup purposes.
Try StreamFab Downloader and download from Netflix, Amazon, Youtube! Or Try DVDFab and copy Blu-rays! or rip iTunes movies!
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 19 of 19
Thread
-
-
Try it and see. If it doesn't work then change the ext to something that the cloud accepts. Just don't forget to change it back again when you want to view the file.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -Carl Sagan -
Well, of course I could try it, but I thought someone might have some insight on the topic. In my opinion, those cloud servers are pretty strict about this. I mean, I would think such "iffy" software in a rar file would be OK, but the cloud servers seem to be able to look inside a basic rar file and disallow uploading/downloading. Out of principle, I don't want to try and upload this kind of file to Videohelp; better to try to upload to yahoo or hotmail.
-
If the site doesn't have the password they can't decrypt and examine the contents of the RAR file.
-
99.99% of what I upload (even for friends) is in a passworded RAR file.
-
-
But he says: " the cloud server will often not allow uploading or downloading this kind of software, even if it is in a rar file"
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -Carl Sagan -
Cloud servers can look inside unencrypted RAR files to identify threats; and they routinely do (and reject the file). They can't look inside pawsword protected (encrypted) RAR files.
-
I believe you can still read the file names of the files in the password protect RARs, without a password. So in theory they could exact those file names and create a searchable database, which could be used to delete RARs. I doubt any filehoster would go this far but who knows.
-
No, filenames can be encrypted too. Even if the filenames could be read you could change the names before archiving.
-
First things first, the "activators" the OP is talking about are flagged as malicious software because the do contain malicious payloads. The fact that the program "does it's job" does not mean it doesn't also do other things.
Ever wonder how hackers build a 10,000+ strong army of zombie computers that they then turn around and sell control of to script kiddies that want to carry out massive ddos attacks? With these "activators", that's how.
Activators are small programs that "activate" proprietary software, you can find them all over the net for Vista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 10, TMPG, Procoder, Sony's software, Adobe's software, the list goes on.
I have tried every single one of these "activators" on a test mule pc, and in every case the system was eventually compromised.
The worst offenders are the modified "RemoveWAT" for Win 8/8.1, this one infects the pc immediately, there was one for XP that would turn the system into a dormant zombie machine, it would scan clean, and nothing would happen for a month then all of a sudden the network traffic and cpu usage would start to spike, as well as the hard drive activity and after much investigation and packet sniffing I was able to determine it was connecting to a C&C server and sending out massive amounts of junk packets.
Do yourself a favor OP, stay away from all these activators, if you want the software buy a legit copy, no one cracks proprietary software out of the goodness of their heart, they do it to make a buck. -
+1 for sophisticles. I had no idea what a activator was.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -Carl Sagan -
Same thing goes for keygen (key generator) files. The "bait" is the software key code generated; the "switch" is the malware, such as bots and keyloggers, left behind.
They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
--Benjamin Franklin -
-
Some of the crackers do it because they can, because they think it's fun,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_pigs -
For the most part this is untrue. Nor do they do it out of the goodness of their heart. Most of the time it's for the being seen as a good cracker by your peers on these private sites, the competition factor, and being able to use your cracked program as a currency to your ratio and to gain access to more private sites.
-
Thanks for the insight.
Some comments:
1) Years ago I uploaded a file in basic rar to hotmail. It uploaded ok and downloaded ok, but years later when I wanted to download it, they said it didn't pass the virus scan.
2) It might be possible that if hotmail cannot check a file for a virus (because password protected archive) they might not allow upload/download.
3) 99% of the time I use such software, it is on a public computer that is wiped clean and reset to a master copy of Windows after the user is finished. -
Similar Threads
-
[Seeking Devs] Cloud Transcode: Distributed FFMpeg in the Cloud
By koxon in forum ProgrammingReplies: 31Last Post: 24th Feb 2017, 03:24 -
What is the best software to copy-protect dvd video files?
By tra_extra in forum Authoring (DVD)Replies: 22Last Post: 11th Sep 2015, 11:44 -
RAR files to DVd
By cmeffa in forum Video ConversionReplies: 26Last Post: 28th Jan 2015, 16:02 -
Cloud Transcode: Distributed FFMpeg in the Cloud
By koxon in forum Video ConversionReplies: 2Last Post: 9th Mar 2014, 21:41 -
McAfee SiteAdvisor alerting on Tools area of Videohelp
By brassplyer in forum Newbie / General discussionsReplies: 20Last Post: 19th Jun 2013, 21:47