FEEDBACK

[bepaald]

Did this program work? Please let me know down here, I would love to know of any warnings/errors or unexpected output during compiling or running the program, as well as your macOS version. Thanks!

[ArneJanning]

Worked without problems out-of-the-box, you saved the day, thank you very much!

MacOS 13.5.2 on Intel.

[jsager1]

Norton says the ,exe file is corrupt with -- Threat name: WS.Reputation.1Full Path: C:\Signal\signalbackup-tools_win.exe
Norton removes the file immediately.

Have you seen this before??

I would really like to get this to work so I can save my signal chats somewhere besides the signal app.

[bepaald]

Is it possible you are on the wrong project page? There is no exe here, the program is not even for Windows. Please do make sure you are getting the exe from the correct source: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools/releases/

Either way, this is surely a false positive, the WS.Reputation.1 threat seems to be based on nothing:

WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.

How the file has gotten a 'low score' is beyond me, I only built it 12 hours ago.

Either way, to be sure I had the exe analyzed by virustotal, and it shows as clean: Virus total. I repeated this on Kaspersky and it also doesn't detect any problems. You should probably verify this yourself.

Whether you trust it or not is up to you, but I would say you should get Norton to leave the file alone. How to do that, I don't know, I've never worked with Norton.

[jsager1]

That is exactly where I got it and it says 13 hours old. Just did it again and got the same result. Norton removes the file before save it to disk on download file. If I had a compiler I would recompile it myself but this is windows 10 not Linux. I will have to figure out how to tell Norton to leave the file alone. From: bepaald ***@***.***> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2024 11:08 PM To: bepaald/get_signal_desktop_key_mac ***@***.***> Cc: jsager1 ***@***.***>; Comment ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [bepaald/get_signal_desktop_key_mac] FEEDBACK (Issue #1) Is it possible you are on the wrong project page? There is no exe here, the program is not even for Windows. Please do make sure you are getting the exe from the correct source: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools/releases/ Either way, this is surely a false positive, the WS.Reputation.1 threat seems to be based on nothing: WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories. How the file has gotten a 'low score' is beyond me, I only built it 12 hours ago. Either way, to be sure I had the exe analyzed by virustotal, and it shows as clean: Virus total <https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/1b7c4761b98ac92970aa0f8abc927ca102f6e6657764d3eed79455e207987e57> . I repeated this on Kaspersky <https://opentip.kaspersky.com/> and it also doesn't detect any problems. You should probably verify this yourself. Whether you trust it or not is up to you, but I would say you should get Norton to leave the file alone. How to do that, I don't know, I've never worked with Norton. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)> , or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AJU3HSH6AAV3M2SGVU5NWSDZSGDSPAVCNFSM6AAAAABMTQ4MLOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDEOJVG4ZTOMZRGI> . You are receiving this because you commented. <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AJU3HSHZ3TCTXJABA4UF5ILZSGDSPA5CNFSM6AAAAABMTQ4MLOWGG33NNVSW45C7OR4XAZNMJFZXG5LFINXW23LFNZ2KUY3PNVWWK3TUL5UWJTUI2YV6A.gif> Message ID: ***@***.*** ***@***.***> >

[jsager1]

I finally got it to work but had to disable Norton on something called intrusion and browser protection. Had to turn it off.
I noticed after I turned it back on after downloading the file norton found it again and removed it.

I think the correct way to do this is recompile the source but that can be messy, plus I have no desire to buy a C++ compiler for this one instance.

I used to do lots with C and C++ on Sles10 and 11 but that was a while ago. Plus Sles is not longer on my system any longer.

I was surprised when Norton found the file again? Even after renaming it.