[Camarade_Tux]

ggf31416, on May 20 2006, 11:34 PM, said:

DSmidgy, on May 20 2006, 10:17 AM, said:

I saw you are using 7z.exe which is using lots of .dll files. You could instead use a single-file command line program 7za.exe (same author) which about 40% smaller and could be found at Sourceforge.

Added:
Maby 7za.exe is only for 7z files and not for others like iso, z, ...? If so my proposal is no good.

7za is only for 7z, zip, tar, gz, bz2 and z.

Afaik 7za handles as many types as 7z+dlls.
However it might not always have been true. I read this file was not updated on sourceforge until recently. :don'treallyknow:


Also, there is a new major version of PeID available.


And another thanks for this app.

[svgusta]

Nitro322, many thanks for this great application, have been using it for almost a half year now...

[nitro322]

hp38guser, on May 14 2006, 08:01 AM, said:

About Exe decompressors. It might be political, but I just want control over my system. Some software what tries to hide itself from the system by compressing itself is not what should happen. Also if you want to rip some bitmaps or icons from such a package it may become handy.

I see you're point. I'll look into this again when I start working on a new version.

Camarade_Tux, on May 22 2006, 12:10 PM, said:

Afaik 7za handles as many types as 7z+dlls.
However it might not always have been true. I read this file was not updated on sourceforge until recently.

Camarade_Tux, I believe that ggf31416 is correct in that 7za.exe support significantly fewer formats than 7z.exe. In fact, when I first added 7-zip to Universal Extractor, I started with 7za. However, I couldn't get it to work with many of the supposedly supported formats, which eventually led me to using 7z.exe with all of the DLLs.

I believe that the update you mentioned was simply to bring it in sync with the latest version of 7-Zip. However, just to be sure I'll go ahead and check it out again on during my next dev cycle. Believe me, I'm all for making this as small as possible. :-)

Camarade_Tux, on May 22 2006, 12:10 PM, said:

Also, there is a new major version of PeID available.

Excellent! I'll definitely use this new version, which should hopefully improve my .exe filetype detection. Being able to accurately determine the archive/installer type is the single most important piece of the puzzle, so this should help improve things quite a bit.

svgusta, on May 22 2006, 12:59 PM, said:

Nitro322, many thanks for this great application, have been using it for almost a half year now...

You're more than welcome. Glad to hear it's getting a lot of use. :-)

I'll let everyone know when I start working on a new version, but at this point it's still likely a few weeks away. Real work keeps getting in the way.

[Giorgio_ap]

Hi Nitro,

It will be good if you can also extract the embeded directory with your soft.
Somes infos from the compile.bin file are interesting to repack the application; I use a disasm soft.

I found an unpacker explorer tool (IsUnp10setup.exe) which show all the structure and files inside the application; nice if you can implemente this kind of tools inside your!!

Last request, you or somebody else can explain me the structure of a NSI file with comparison with Inno structure; I don't understand nothing with "$R0", "$PluginDir"... (see below).

Many thanks again for this nice application.

 Struct_NSI.jpg (66.8K)
Number of downloads: 76

[nitro322]

Giorgio_ap, on May 30 2006, 05:45 PM, said:

It will be good if you can also extract the embeded directory with your soft.
Somes infos from the compile.bin file are interesting to repack the application; I use a disasm soft.

I found an unpacker explorer tool (IsUnp10setup.exe) which show all the structure and files inside the application; nice if you can implemente this kind of tools inside your!!

I don't quite follow you here. IS Unpacker Explorer, as far as I'm aware, is a frontend to innounp.exe. All it does is provide the ability to unpack Inno Setup installers with innounp using a GUI interface. The end result should be the exact same as Universal Extractor, since I'm also using innounp to unpack Inno Setup installers. What exactly are you requesting?

Giorgio_ap, on May 30 2006, 05:45 PM, said:

Last request, you or somebody else can explain me the structure of a NSI file with comparison with Inno structure; I don't understand nothing with "$R0", "$PluginDir"... (see below).

I'm not really sure what they mean myself, as I also use Inno Setup for all my packaging needs. Even more confusing is that each NSIS installer I've unpacked seems to be slightly different. For example, compare the directories shown in your image (which looks like the DivX Player installer) to the directories extracted from the Gaim installer:

$_OUTDIR
$1
$PLUGINSDIR
$R0
$SYSDIR

DivX doesn't use $_OUTDIR, it uses $0 instead of $1, and it has a bunch of DivX-specific folders that Gaim lacks. I don't get it either. :-)

[ladiko]

if archive types are associated with uniext they all belong to the same file type group "Universal Extractor Archive" in windows xp explorer if you group the entrys as on the pic:



i dont like it that mozilla-xpi-extensions, isos, jar-files and also rars, and zips are in one group cause they have all other functions. can you split it to "Universal Extractor XPI Archive", "Universal Extractor 7Z Archive" and so on?

This post has been edited by ladiko: 01 June 2006 - 11:34 AM

[Giorgio_ap]

nitro322, on Jun 1 2006, 03:48 AM, said:

I don't quite follow you here. IS Unpacker Explorer,

Yes It is!

Just, I want to say is Universal Extractor don't extract the "Embeded" dir.

In this directory you will find the pics but also sometimes if the author had done some script, a compiled file.

Thanks.

[nitro322]

Giorgio_ap, on Jun 1 2006, 03:56 PM, said:

Just, I want to say is Universal Extractor don't extract the "Embeded" dir.

Ok, I gotcha now. I'll have to investigate this for the next version. I'm not opposed to it, just have never realized it could be done.

Thanks for the suggestion.

ladiko, on Jun 1 2006, 11:15 AM, said:

i dont like it that mozilla-xpi-extensions, isos, jar-files and also rars, and zips are in one group cause they have all other functions. can you split it to "Universal Extractor XPI Archive", "Universal Extractor 7Z Archive" and so on?

Hmm... I've actually never seen this "view" in Windows Explorer before. Interesting. :-)

I don't know how difficult this would be, but I'll look into it for the next version.

[Camarade_Tux]

nitro322, on May 22 2006, 08:47 PM, said:

Camarade_Tux, on May 22 2006, 12:10 PM, said:

Afaik 7za handles as many types as 7z+dlls.
However it might not always have been true. I read this file was not updated on sourceforge until recently.

Camarade_Tux, I believe that ggf31416 is correct in that 7za.exe support significantly fewer formats than 7z.exe. In fact, when I first added 7-zip to Universal Extractor, I started with 7za. However, I couldn't get it to work with many of the supposedly supported formats, which eventually led me to using 7z.exe with all of the DLLs.

Indeed, in fact 7za only supports 4 formats (written in 7zip's help).

This post has been edited by Camarade_Tux: 05 June 2006 - 01:29 PM

[totoymola]

This is cool! Thanks!

[kjempen]

Thanks for this great application!

If development is still ongoing, may I ask about adding support for Setup Factory installers?
There's a Setup Factory unpacker here

[nitro322]

kjempen, on Jun 7 2006, 04:58 PM, said:

Thanks for this great application!

You're welcome.

kjempen, on Jun 7 2006, 04:58 PM, said:

If development is still ongoing, may I ask about adding support for Setup Factory installers?
There's a Setup Factory unpacker here

Someone else had requested this as well. I'll look into it for the next release (still probably a few weeks out), but if I recall correctly I believe that the Setup Factory unpacker you linked to only supports older versions of the product. I'll have to do some testing, of course, but if you happen to know of a specific .exe that it will unpack it'd be a huge help of you could send me a link to it.

[ggf31416]

Today AVG Free with the last updates shows UniExtract.exe as "Trojan Horse Generic.VFI"

http://virusscan.jotti.org/ reports:

File: UniExtract.exe
Status: INFECTED/MALWARE
MD5 59ce357c2d9d4300b130d13ed991e2ab
Packers detected: UPX

Scanner results
AntiVir Found nothing
ArcaVir Found nothing
Avast Found nothing
AVG Antivirus Found Generic.VFI
BitDefender Found nothing
ClamAV Found nothing
Dr.Web Found nothing
F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
Fortinet Found nothing
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
NOD32 Found nothing
Norman Virus Control Found nothing
UNA Found nothing
VirusBuster Found nothing
VBA32 Found nothing

Obviously it's a False Positive

This post has been edited by ggf31416: 12 June 2006 - 08:17 AM

[mr_stubble]

I have the latest version of UniversalExtractor installed on my jump drive. I had my drive connected to my PC all day yesterday with no problems. I leave at 1630.

I come in this morning (to work) and eTrust Antivirus reports:
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The Win32/Ardamax.C!Trojan was detected in N:\UNIVERSAL EXTRACTOR\BIN\UNIEXTRACT.EXE.
Machine: CE****, User: ***CIC\john.doe <-- My PC name and username here
File Status: File was cured; system cure performed.
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eTrust Product Version: 7.1.501
Engine Information:
InoculateIT w/ Signature Version: 23.72.35 Last update 06/12/2006 2116
Vet w/ Signature Version: 12.6.2253 Last update: 06/13/2006 0505

Hope you can get this straightened out with the AV folks. Let me know if I can do anything to help.

Great program, and thanks!

[Camarade_Tux]

You should try to download UniExtract again, unpack it (no more UPX) and scan it with your AV.
Download upx from here : http://upx.sourceforge.net/
The unpack switch is "-d".

[mr_stubble]

I'm sorry, but your steps were not entirely clear. I followed them the best I could. The eTrust AV's real time scanning monitor deletes the file every time it appears ANYWHERE on my PC.

I think contact may need to made by the developer to the AV companies having them re-check their virus definitions and stop reporting this false positive.

[Camarade_Tux]

Try this : http://rapidshare.de/files/22974307/uniext...t_noupx.7z.html
(simply unpacked uniextract.exe)

[mr_stubble]

Downloaded and extracted the file from RapidShare as instructed. I appreciate all the effort, but eTrust still detects it as a trojan and deletes it.

[Camarade_Tux]

With the same error ?

[mr_stubble]

Yes, same error. Tried again this morning using both the downloaded file from the website (uniextract121_noinst.rar) and the file you uploaded for me (uniextract121_noinst_noupx.7z) and tried to extract the file from the archive to my HDD. eTrust picks it up and deletes uniextract.exe just as it goes to the temp file for copying to the destination folder.

I tried to send the file to Computer Associates via their virus submittal program to have them take a look at it and maybe reevaluate their virus scanning engine, but I can't even extract the file long enough to archive and email it. Maybe I'll just send the whole installation archive...?