Is SMP Affinity Changer Safe?

[caferace]

NOTE: I did just find some contact information for the dev, so I will be asking my co-worker to help me check with them on Monday.

http://72.14.203.104/translate_c?hl=en& ... ty_changer

-jim

[Flathead74]

Perhaps a better approach would be for you and your Ukrainian co-worker to write them and ask for clarification?
Have you tried?

Not yet. This program came to my attention yesterday, and I have no off-hours contact information for her. Nor any contact info for the developer in the Ukraine.

-jim

The developer has posted in this thread.
It is in English.
It may be a reasonable starting point.

[petrusbroder]

Perhaps a better approach would be for you and your Ukrainian co-worker to write them and ask for clarification?
Have you tried?

Not yet. This program came to my attention yesterday, and I have no off-hours contact information for her. Nor any contact info for the developer in the Ukraine.

-jim

The developer has posted in this thread.
It is in English.
It may be a reasonable starting point.

Thanks for the link.
I just now looked around there and the site was hacked
I hope they will get the forum "on air" soon.

[Flathead74]

The developer has posted in this thread.
It is in English.
It may be a reasonable starting point.

Thanks for the link.
I just now looked around there and the site was hacked
I hope they will get the forum "on air" soon.

They are online at this time...

[rilian]

....

Our site (http://distributed.org.ua) is UP already. The site was not hacked, but whole server in hoster's datacenter.

As for source code, caferace, you will not get it. We are not going to get bunch of clones of our product. Say "thank you" that you get free points (using Affinity Changer) with our help, while Pande Lab unable to spend a day and improve own clients (even when two months already passed after release of affinity changer) to fasten own Science progress

read it again:

Affinity Changer does not connect to internet.

ps: sorry for "straight words"

[rilian]

This is an interesting exchange ...

I am very much convinced that it is not too hard to write a program which bypasses a firewall (even a better one than ZoneAlarm) and which does not trigger an antivirus scanner. Because: if it was so hard, then why would all the security software need updating so often?

A-Ch's size is 20KB. Stop being f*cking noob, get a reflector and decompile source code. it is not encrypted. With your tons of flood you just show that you know NOTHING about security, why trying to show yourself like heroic antihacker.

incredible stupidity

this is my last post about this. please flood somewhere outside this topic, on your forums, preferably. thank you

license link changed to BSD. period.

[rilian]

Next and further versions of Affinity Changer will not work for users with team number 198 (Anand Tech). Sorry

[toTOW]

Why

[DriveEuro]

Man, this whole thing turned childish.

[uncle_fungus]

Permanently locked.

I can also confirm that the source for v1.0.4 is "clean" and the program does nothing other than what is advertised.

See here: viewtopic.php?p=4058#p4058