Shoutbox

I've just released WLM Safe 5.0

A Big thanks to Menthix for making it a featured script!

I made it without using external exe file and generally improved almost everything.
I hope it will really help people fighting the spread of dangerous or annoying links!

If someone want to try it, here's the link:

http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/505-WLM-Safe
( comments/suggestions will be appreciated! )

Nice done, nice work!

I think I will trust this version now

According to Virustotal there was only one result:

AntiVir     7.9.0.168     2009.05.25     HEUR/HTML.Malware


According to Avira:

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A heuristic detection might be a false identification if one or more of the following are true:
- The site hosting the detected file has been accessed for a very long time and is known to the user
- The detected file is from a trustworthy source

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Thanks for your trust!

few things came to my mind after reading this thread:

- Personally I will never use a script which uses EXEs and BATs in such a way, safe or not. Everything those EXEs and BATs do can easly be done with a few lines of scripting code.


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Originally posted by Menthix
I have no problem putting WLMSafe back if you make a few changes:

• Stop deleting "Cila Smart Security", no script should delete or disable another script. You'll be happy to know Smart Security won't be coming back to the site as long as it interferes with WLMSafe.

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If all the stuff posted here about "Cila Smart Security" is true then WLMSafe has every right to instantly remove every trace of it (and be listed in the DB) and "Cila Smart Security" (and its author) should be banned from the DB as it very obviously has malicious intends.


- uploading Plus! scripts to online virusscanners is not a fool proof method. For starters, online scanners usually are made for checking EXEs and COMs, not javascript. Second, there are a lot of Plus! specific objects in Plus! scripting which no virusscanner will reconize, yet might be very dangerous. Uploading the accompanying program files like those EXEs to online scanners is a much better thing to do.


- Again about "Cila Smart Security". See private forum...

You're reading a mostly old thread Cookie .

- The current WLM Safe version does not use any exe/bat.
- All of Cila's scripts were removed months ago

I know it is an old thread and that WLMSafe has been updated and Cila's scripts have been removed, but that doesn't matter. Those aren't the issues here, those things are only examples of issues which are still very valid for any futur script. Hence why I made that post.

- About script using EXEs, COMs => I still feel the same about them. And in 99,999% of all cases those programs can all be replaced with simple script code.

- About that policy that WLMSafe was removed because it 'touched' another (malicious) script => As I said, I rather have a security script doing the same thing with another malicious script in the DB as WLMSafe did than to seeing a perfect valid script being removed because it tries to protect a user from malicious stuff simply because it 'touches' another script.

In such cases that policy is seriously flawed and actually harms the user and an excepting should be made. Even if the malicous script has been removed from the official DB, it might still float around other download sites. Enforcing that policy to the letter makes that people using scripts like WLMSafe are not protected to such particular scripts.

- My comments about uploading scripts to online scanners is still valid.

- Last point, see private forum.

This script sound really good for me, but it wont work! m
When I click to install it, it works, but then it says that parts of it are locked and I need to restart messenger! So I click OK, then a few moments later, I get this attached message. I've tried again and again and It wont work! this script sounds really good can someone help me please!

I just want you to know that i made a function that removes CilaSmartSecurity only because it is an unsafe script and also because that script had a similar function.
I never wanted to delete other script only because are similar to mine or comes in conflict with it!
However that function there is no longer in version 5.0.

What's in private forum about Cila? Here is the author:
http://foro.msgpluslive.es/member.php?action=profile&uid=16822
"Los mejores programas que te puedas imaginar son creados con las peores intenciones." he sais...

wta121, what's in Script Debug window?
Does it give you any error? What Messenger version do you have?
PM me

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Originally posted by wincy
I just want you to know that i made a function that removes CilaSmartSecurity only because it is an unsafe script and also because that script had a similar function.
I never wanted to delete other script only because are similar to mine or comes in conflict with it!
However that function there is no longer in version 5.0.

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Those are all the right reasons imho and thus I find it too bad that you had to remove that function, because that script from Cila is still available on 3rd party sites.

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Originally posted by wincy
What's in private forum about Cila?

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Not so much about Cila itself, but more about the general issue.