continue.exe is a virus!!!?!?!?!? WTF?

[adrian-rt]

http://www.exeproblems.com/exe-file-error/continue.exe-fix-29881/

Seriously???????? I'd really like to hear an explanation for this!!!

[stephenfewer]

continue.exe (SHA1: 3588345B1C76580422C8772C6A16660BAAD31C01) is not a virus. It triggers 2/55 on virustotal [0] probably due to some generic heuristic matching. If you are still concerned you can build it from source and bin diff the two files :)

[0] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/112cc9eac322c21b8769232d901663dca7814403e86ac634194fe90256bf850d/analysis/

[adrian-rt]

ok what the hell is this then?

[adrian-rt]

it made me very paranoid.

[stephenfewer]

Fair enough, The source code is in the tree so you can build your own copy to avoid any doubt.

[adrian-rt]

cheers mate! All good now, I became angry when I googled it and a few guys were talking about the continue.exe virus online! Thanks!

[stephenfewer]

No problem, always good to double check these things! :)

[adrian-rt]

Amen!;)....oh,yeah, one more thing, can we do something to make this work on win XP?

[stephenfewer]

It shouldn't be too much work but I do not have the time unfortunately to bring support to older platforms.

[adrian-rt]

ok, well can you give me some ideas? I got 0 experience with WIN API.

[stephenfewer]

Well ./node/source/continue/main.c is pretty simple so any win32 compiler toolchain should be able to compile it. I would either download an old version of MSVC Express or grab something like MinGW and build continue.exe, you should not have to edit the source code.

There is no guarantee the Ruby side will perform as expected on XP so you may hit issues there. Grinder was never tested at any stage on XP, only Win7 and up.

[adrian-rt]

i've managed to compile that with mingw. I could send it to you if you're interested.
Also you say in the docs that ruby 1.9 is supported but you can't fuzz 64 bit targets with it.......why?

Thanks.