EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard from Gizmo today
UnsteadyKen
has an available today only download of
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 at
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yea4ahs
Just installed it and it is kosher as far as I can tell.
Nice app to have.
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VanguardLH
> Gizmo AKA http://www.techsupportalert.com/
>
> has an available today only download of
> EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 at
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/yea4ahs
>
> Just installed it and it is kosher as far as I can tell.
> Nice app to have.
Does the Gizmo site operate like the Giveaway of the Day (GOTD) site
where you must install the "free" software before the end of the
giveaway day?
GOTD uses a installer wrapper around the program which phones home to
verify the giveaway is still valid. If you don't have Internet access
at the time of the install or block their installer from phoning home,
their wrapper will puke with an error. If you don't install on the
giveaway day, their wrapper pukes with an error. At GOTD, you cannot
download and install some later day when you decide you have time to
trial the program or when you later want to use it. And if you have to
reinstall the program, it won't reinstall because GOTD's wrapper phones
home and finds the giveaway day has long elapsed.
If Gizmo's "free" offering operates like GOTD's "giveaway" then I'm not
wasting my time on it.
UnsteadyKen
> Does the Gizmo site operate like the Giveaway of the Day (GOTD) site
> where you must install the "free" software before the end of the
> giveaway day?
From a post by Gizmo in the comments it appears that it can be
installed at a later date.
It comes as a zip containing the
*.exe installer.
It doesn't appear to phone home.
I've just used it to find the deleted copy of the original download in
the emptied recycle bin. It recovered it ok.
I then uninstalled the program using revo, downloaded another copy,
disconnected from the network and ran the install on the fresh copy.
Didn't appear to try to connect and installed OK.
VanguardLH
I installed in a virtual machine (with networking disabled to prevent
phoning home and go no prompt that it couldn't connect). I noticed in
the EULA that it says:
"The Data Recovery Wizard demo version may be freely distributed, if the
distribution package is not modified."
Hmm, I wonder what might missing in the demo version. Its Help->About
menu doesn't mention "demo". You said that it successfully recovered a
file so it isn't like some "free" programs where they'll show you what
they claim they can do but won't actually do it until you pay.
I downloaded and dropped this one into my archive toolbox. If I
remember, I'll retest doing an install tomorrow or the next day to check
if the install still works.
Roger Hunt
>Gizmo AKA http://www.techsupportalert.com/
>
>has an available today only download of
>EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 at
>
>http://preview.tinyurl.com/yea4ahs
>
>Just installed it and it is kosher as far as I can tell.
>Nice app to have.
>
I bought that last week, FFS! Only last week!!! F! F! F!
Buggery bollocks bumshit!!!!!
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Roger Hunt
Richard Steinfeld
It may impose a limit on the number of recoveries before it goes
dead.
Roger Hunt
>Gizmo AKA http://www.techsupportalert.com/
>
>has an available today only download of
>EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6 at
>
>http://preview.tinyurl.com/yea4ahs
>
>Just installed it and it is kosher as far as I can tell.
>Nice app to have.
>
"There is a problem with this website's security certificate.
The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a
different website's address.
Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or
intercept any data you send to the server."
I wonder what that means ...
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Roger Hunt
UnsteadyKen
> Why Revo rather than Zsoft's Uninstaller? Does Revo also install the
> registry strings that were injected into the registry during the original
> install?
No reason other than I'm not arganized enough to go the analyze before
install route that Zsoft takes. I've just installed it and used it to
remove a couple of the 190+ installations on this laptop and it seems
to rely on the apps or windows uninstall routine. The interface I found
to be rather unintuitive. I uninstalled it using Revo and Revo found a
few files and directories Zsoft left behind. Surely an uninstaller
should uninstall cleanly:-)
UnsteadyKen
> I wonder what that means ...
The link appears to have changed or hacked, I now get that same alert
as you in IE8 and Chrome reports...
This is probably not the site that you are looking for!
You attempted to reach download.techsupportalert.com.s3.amazonaws.com,
but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as
*.s3.amazonaws.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the
server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could
be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version
of download.techsupportalert.com.s3.amazonaws.com. You should not
proceed.
The s3.amazonaws part was not there when I originally downloaded.
UnsteadyKen
> I downloaded and dropped this one into my archive toolbox. If I
> remember, I'll retest doing an install tomorrow or the next day to check
> if the install still works.
Good luck. With the suspicious redirects being reported now, this is
turning into a bit of a disaster. Too much haste on my part.
Roger Hunt
24hr time limit had expired.
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Roger Hunt
VanguardLH
> VanguardLH said...
>
>> I downloaded and dropped this one into my archive toolbox. If I
>> remember, I'll retest doing an install tomorrow or the next day to check
>> if the install still works.
>
> Good luck. With the suspicious redirects being reported now, this is
> turning into a bit of a disaster. Too much haste on my part.
The string on the page for the URL shows:
http://download.techsupportalert.com/DRW443.ZIP
Yet the URL is actually:
https://download.techsupportalert.com.s3.amazonaws.com/DRW433.ZIP
amazonaws.com is owned by amazon.com (it doesn't appear to be a phishing
site). techsupportalert.com is some Australian site and NOT part of
Amazon. I suppose it is possible that techsupportalert.com is a hosted
site and Amazon AWS is their web hosting provider. amazonaws.com is a
web service provider. Yet when I do a traceroute on
techsupportalert.com, it doesn't hit an Amazon domain. A DNS lookup on
techsupportalert.com returns 72.52.134.216 and a reverse DNS lookup on
that returns host.46best.com. A lookup on the domain registration for
46best.com says it is owned by Ian Richards who, according to the
techsupport.com site is the Ian "Gizmo" Richards that is one of its
editors. I don't know why the site is playing footsie with the DNS
lookups.
If you look at the actual URL (not the one they print in their web
page), it uses the https: URL scheme (SSL for a secured connection).
However, the user is clicking on a link at techsupportalert.com for a
file that will get delivered from amazonaws.com. In IE8, I now also get
the cert security alert but I didn't when I did the download before. So
perhaps they changed to use file hosting services at amazonaws.com but
the problem is that the link originates from a different domain
(techsupportalert.com). They either need to get rid of using https for
the download link (because of the mismatched domains for link page
versus file location) or move to a download page on the amazonaws.com
domain before showing a download link for the file.
Richard Steinfeld
> UnsteadyKen <unste...@gmail.com> wrote in news:7m4ak2F3gbed7U1
> @mid.individual.net:
> installation, just as Zsoft won't uninstall registry strings created upon
> subsequent use of the program.
When trying out a program, especially one that may not have good
uninstallation manners (hint: a great amount of software), I feel
that it's a good practice to use a tracking uninstall utility
such as Zsoft's or the former free Total Uninstall. I use both of
these programs, in fact, one on each of two computers.
Programs that are especially suspect are those 1-day-for-free
trickware (such as GiveawayOfTheDay) and trialware. Trialware
will usually leave lots of junk behind. GOTD installs their own
fancy "wrapper" utility along with the goody. Does the wrapper
include its own uninstaller? Really?
The instructions for Total Uninstall recommend that the
installation tracking not be concluded until after the program is
actually run. Many programs create additional registry settings
and settings files at that time. What I do is simply start up the
program, perhaps look through a few menus, then exit and finish
the tracking procedure. Later, I'll set my own preferred data
files directory, but there's no need to track this.
I'm amazed by what Revo does and I can't figure out how it goes
about doing it. But it's good: damn good. To uninstall an
application, I first run Revo, then clean up what's left with the
tracking uninstaller. I may finally touch up the registry by
hand, but I don't often do this. My computer runs OK and I
haven't needed to reinstall Windows.
Now, a fantastic test for Revo, if you've already got this
monsterous attack machine, Real Player, installed on your box, is
to uninstall it with Revo. If you don't have Real on your
computer and are truly a massochist, install this abomination and
then Revo it off. See if it'll do it.
Now, try the same thing with Quick Time.
I'll be out here listing for the screaming...
If you're in New Jersey, you'll have to scream real loud.
Richard
Roger Hunt
Thanks for that.
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Roger Hunt
UnsteadyKen
> >>The s3.amazonaws part was not there when I originally downloaded.
> >>
> > I wonder if it has been hacked - I downloaded several hours after the
> > 24hr time limit had expired.
>
> Did you two post this information on the Techsupportalert site page for
> Easeus?
No. I didn't as someone had already posted about this and with my poor
memory and preceptions, I couldn't be certain if anything had changed.
Roger Hunt
>hmmm said...
>
>> >>The s3.amazonaws part was not there when I originally downloaded.
>> >>
>> > I wonder if it has been hacked - I downloaded several hours after the
>> > 24hr time limit had expired.
>>
>> Did you two post this information on the Techsupportalert site page for
>> Easeus?
>No. I didn't as someone had already posted about this and with my poor
>memory and preceptions, I couldn't be certain if anything had changed.
>
+1
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Roger Hunt