A tool many of you may make find useful!

On 6/28/2020 1:34 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: I used wget on the link.? To be sure I had the correct unarchiver, I used the file command and it was indicated to be a version 2 zip, and it opened with the EXE payloads and a text file just fine. A lot of web scanner tools which scan web downloads will flag a zip file with exe file payloads because that's one of the simplest trojan vectors.? I'd recommend you try to email them with an emailer such as yahoo.? or use your own virus scan explicitly on the directory with the exe files (for those who succeed in downloading the package). The simplest least bs and most on your own method for this is what I did.? The problem with trojans is so significant I can't really say there's a problem with the using more caution on these sorts of payloads. Also, I suspect that someone who is having problems with the downloads to go to the cctech/cctalk list archive and use the link there if it comes up as an active link in the download and see if it's flagged there.? That is if the archiver doesn't obfuscate it. To Dave, I had a tool that did this years ago (30?) which used a sophisticated shell script to create an index of md5 sums on the results of a find of every file in a tree to smoke out duplicates. I lost it, and have been wanting to write a python version with some other additions, such as a delta feature to be able to do the scans on a catch-up basis after an epoch scan. I currently have an index I do on my nas systems which runs daily, and it could run a scan like this as well in case there were dupes daily as well.? Would also help save against bit rot. thanks Jim On 6/28/2020 3:29 PM, Will Cooke via cctech wrote: