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Subject: Thanks Portal Space
Just want to send out a thank you to portal space of LC for redoing lifetank, craftbot, and several other plugins that desperately needed an update.


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He's still at it then.. NOWHERE on 'PortalCraft' does it mention that it's actually Paraduck's CraftBot with a few minor additions and fixes. There's nothing wrong with extending or fixing a program originally written by someone else provided you have their permission, but it's extremely bad form to claim it's all your own work.

People like portalspace are the reason I'll never release the source of my plugins.

 

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WOW! Spellbound is a blatant copy of ScrollReader3 1.5.x, the only visible changes are a different icon and a new text on the "About" tab.

Dear Mr. PortalSpace, you are violating the License that comes with ScrollReader3. How about learning to write your own plugins instead of re-labeling the work others have done to make it look like your own?

With immediate effect the sources for my plugins are offline to prevent further license violations.

Since PortalSpace is not even publishing the (modified) sources, I strongly recommend: DO NOT USE ANY OF PORTALSPACES PLUGINS, THEY MAY CONTAIN HARMFUL CODE!

 

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After going thru all the files in "Portal Bot", I am sure this person has malicious intent. The code is exactly the same as DibBot, but PortalSpace removed all traces of that by renaming all files that had the "dib_" prefix, replacing all occurences of "DibBot" in the files and even by replacing every name in the changelogs that are part of most files with his own, claiming to have it written all by himself while in reality the macro was a result of the combined effort of several other authors.

PortalSpace, you are among the lowest scum on earth.

 

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Wow this is sad. I will remove the plugins he made from my system until this is cleared up.

 

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I don't think there is any way to "clear this up".
This is someone taking credit for others work and very half-assedly trying to cover the tracks.
I would be surprised to see the website still up come Monday. Even released code still belongs to the person who wrote it, and hosting companies take a poor view of people who get them letters asking for stuff to be taken down. And I am sure it will play out that way because this person took every step possible to hide the fact its stolen code. A nice note of please stop being an a-hole, will not motivate any change.

There needs to be alot of publicity that these are questionable code, compiled from others work, and what a d-bag this person is.

 

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We've had similar issues in the past with PortalSpace I believe doing 3rd party hosting of other people's plugins before instead of linking to the appropriate page. It seems the way he cleared that up was to instead steal the plugins to be passed off as his own. *sigh*

 

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It's probably nothing but when I downloaded pTank a few weeks ago my firewall (avira) popped up claiming it was a virus.

 

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It's not very good I am afraid, even thoguh the option is there it doesn't refill your mana stones and also it does not look at the attack and defense when looting two handed weapons, the only thing I can say that is good is the fact that it buffs my two handed weapon skill which is good for macroing ltx 11.9.08 has all the features i wand but is missing two handed critter buffs and two handed weapon looting and level 8 buffs, but who needs level 8's whilst macroing anyway, I am probably going to go back to using 11.9.08

 

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someone posted the fix for ltx to buff two handed a couple weeks ago

 

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nice job of this jerk to take other peoples hard work and hours of time and claim it as his own work, what a jerkoff!! Maud has been in my clan for years and ive known him for nigh 9 years in and out of game now, he is really one of the nicest people out there you could ever meet and this moron wants to rip him off (even if it is free code) and claim that hard work as his own. To see he is doing it to a bunch of other plug in's as well has me suspicious that he is trying to plant something on other peoples computers!

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any idea where i can find the fix? does it cover just buffing your critter skill or also for finding the weapons?

 

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I'll second that on Maud, he is awesome. When I contacted him about the dibbot breaking when they added the 9th toon (which actually was a skunkworks probablem I think) he responded right away and "fixed" his code to handle the 9th toon. I'm sure didn't need me contacting him, probably was already aware and awaiting for the skunkworks fix.

I know just about everyone on Wintersebb love the portal bots.
Sad to see someone else trying to take credit sad


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For the people who are wondering portaltank installer is infected.

 

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Account hacking at it's finest!

Link removed in the first post to keep passer-by's from getting infected.

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Has anyone else been able to confirm this? I scanned the files with AVG and Malwarebytes, but neither found a virus. The programs from portalspace are off my system but I want to make sure I do not need to get another anti-virus program.

 

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As you can see from my pic there Avast found it so I'd strongly advise you to think about upgrading to it. Also make sure you change all your passwords.




<edit> Is it possible for the decal devs to block this hackers plugins to try to protect the people who don't know/believe that this is a problem?

 

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Whilst it's technically possible to block a plugin from working, that wouldn't stop you downloading and installing it.

If in doubt, upload it to virustotal.com, that'll run it by multiple anti-virus programs.

 

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I am not doubting there is a virus shown in the screen shot, but its possible that your system was infected and it attached the virus to the file when you downloaded it. That is why I am asking if anyone else found a virus in the file.

 

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I scanned the files with Microsoft Security Essentials and Trend Micro Housecall, and neither detected a virus. I don't recommend installing these plugins regardless -- just reporting what I found.

 

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Volthorn posted:
Is it possible for the decal devs to block this hackers plugins to try to protect the people who don't know/believe that this is a problem?


Not without severely limiting what good developers can do.

This is 2010, not 1990. People should be aware of the risks of running any downloaded software on their computer, and only run programs they trust. Virus scanning software is a last line of defense, not a primary method of protection.

 

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The free AVG has has some problems it will not pic up some viruse.. even if u do the updates...thats why i change to norten 60 day free trial then i'll buy it after it up

 

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i found no virus.

frame-job of a bitter dev that got ripped off?

i'm not disputing that the program is a direct rip off of lifetank.

 

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No, I think there's sufficient cause for concern:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/0d65043ed2d88228b320f2f5cdba71c4ab152190ddd4c0bcf3086f4eb0b8171d-1262557113

Although I'm not defending ripping off other people's work, it's unlikely that portal's deliberately infected this file, it's more likely he's as much a victim of the virus as anybody else. I've seen the kind of noob questions he used to ask on the decal dev forums, I'll be very surprised if he's got the capability to pull off something like this.

 

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Saloben_ign posted:
I am not doubting there is a virus shown in the screen shot, but its possible that your system was infected and it attached the virus to the file when you downloaded it. That is why I am asking if anyone else found a virus in the file.



I ran a scan today and it found nothing. After I downloaded portaltank again and scanned I got the same result. File is infected from its home.

 

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I am aware you had a virus Volt... I am wanting to see if anyone else downloaded an infected file.

 

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I misunderstood you. Thought you where like this guy below.


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i found no virus.

frame-job of a bitter dev that got ripped off?

i'm not disputing that the program is a direct rip off of lifetank.




I don't have the skill or the drive to write plugins so try again.

 

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not exactly what i meant, but it's ok.

either way, i don't advise anyone to trust this program.

 

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Looks like the site was taken down.

 

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how would you go about getting rid of the virus

im too lazy to reformat

 

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I dled portal tank and did a few checks and it came out all clear.

 

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I dled portal tank and did a few checks and it came out all clear.



congrats....enjoy giving away all your personal info.

 

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Volthorn posted:
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I dled portal tank and did a few checks and it came out all clear.



congrats....enjoy giving away all your personal info.


What personal information would I be giving away exactly? I don't use the computer for personal stuff just gaming and none of my passwords or login information aren't typed in. And unless I'm missing something here nothing came up on virus checks and no information is being sent from my comp to an outside network w/ out my personal. So I'd say the program is pretty safe, but who knows I can always be proven wrong.

 

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The files have been proven to be infected. I haven't looked into exactly what the viruses are designed to do, so they could do little harm. I wouldn't use them either way.

 

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Was it proven? I don't mess with or intend to mess with the program but i thought several people have done scans and they came up clean. Keep in mind just because 1 program says there is a virus it doesn't mean there is one. I have several utilities I use at my repair shop that often get picked up as viruses but aren't. False positives are known to happen.

Keep in mind I don't trust the guy myself. My characters and gear are too important to risk. I just don't want the virus issue to become inaccurate.

 

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Was it proven? I don't mess with or intend to mess with the program but i thought several people have done scans and they came up clean. Keep in mind just because 1 program says there is a virus it doesn't mean there is one. I have several utilities I use at my repair shop that often get picked up as viruses but aren't. False positives are known to happen.

Keep in mind I don't trust the guy myself. My characters and gear are too important to risk. I just don't want the virus issue to become inaccurate.


It wasn't proven. As the poster above you stated it might of been a negative positive type of thing. Even with that said the first person who did the scan showed trojans, now I scanned it with the same site he used and it came out clean and i used a few other scans and it came out clean. So what I'm trying to see is that why the first person who scanned had a virus/trojan and these are clean?

But as I said before scans aren't 100% accurate, so I'll wait and see if someone goes through the files and see what theyh come up with.

 

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In one of the first post someone posted a link to totalvirus. That is a site that scans a file with multiple virus engines. That found several viruses in the files. I also used it to test the other files that portal was distrubing and they were also infected. I tested totalvirus with several files that I knew were clean and it did not find any viruses, so I believe the results they are giving. Also, total virus shows exactly where the virus was injected at.

 

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Saloben, was the site that is listed here (http://asheron.wikia.com/wiki/Plugins) the same address?
I did test the portalspace software from the link there and my scanner along with the massive scanner couldn't find any trace of a virus.

In anycase if the software's just straight copies of other programs out there trying to be passed of as there own they can just take a leap off a tall mountian. Im not going to install em and find out thought at this point happy

 

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The website portalspace had the plugins hosted on was taken down several days ago.

 

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It seems he just moved it.

 

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Wow he did put it up again sad

 

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Saloben_ign posted:
In one of the first post someone posted a link to totalvirus. That is a site that scans a file with multiple virus engines. That found several viruses in the files. I also used it to test the other files that portal was distrubing and they were also infected. I tested totalvirus with several files that I knew were clean and it did not find any viruses, so I believe the results they are giving. Also, total virus shows exactly where the virus was injected at.




That's what I'm trying to figure out. I scanned the file using totalvirus and it came back with nothing, so I scanned it again with total virus 2 more times and used various other scanners and it came out clean. So I am confused as to what file or file he scanned vs the one i scanned. He's came out w/ trojans and the one I have came out clean.

 

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It may not even *BE* the SAME file, it'd be fairly trivial to replace a infected file he is hosting with a clean one and even swap it out again later. Just because any single copy may be clean, does NOT mean any other particular copies will be clean, past or future as haw can you KNOW it's the same file? Filesize is not the answer as there are ways around that (padding and such), I personally don't know if checksum's can be fooled or not, I know they exist.

 

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The files that were on the site the other day were all exe files. Now they are all zip files, so he did change the files. Whether or not its the same files they are still stolen from other developers if there is no credit given to the people who spent hundreds of hours making the programs from scratch. I have not installed the new files or looked at them to see if that was done.

 

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There is no virus with a Norton scan.

I have seen this program kick you for violation of CoC while Amc, other then that or and including that this dude work is shoddy, but ive see worse.

 

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Did you not read the post above yours? happy

The files were infected but he replaced them. Even so, he still is not giving any credit to all of the hours the previous programmers put into the program. Why are you bringing back such an old post anyway?

 

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