Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#16 Post by allclownsareevil »

webfork wrote:What the heck is that Baca Saya.txt file doing in the download?
Don't know, it came with the original rar file so it was archived along with it. I'm guessing a readme file in authors native language perhaps? Would have removed it if it were an executable, but being as it's a txt file I saw no harm leaving it intact.

donald wrote:I tried Monoff4s.exe

I do not know if this application is desktop only or if it is usable on a laptop,
but with (Monoff's) default settings on my Vista Sp2 laptop I only got monitor flickering.
Works fine on all three of my laptops. I'm guessing it's down to your laptop's power management settings/software. Monoff will send command to power down monitor whilst power management software will counteract it maybe?
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#17 Post by webfork »

allclownsareevil wrote:Would have removed it if it were an executable, but being as it's a txt file I saw no harm leaving it intact.
It was sort of spammy so I zapped it. But the non-portable version was identical to the one I had so I'm going to assume the other file is authentic. No virus problems.
donald wrote:I do not know if this application is desktop only or if it is usable on a laptop,
but with (Monoff's) default settings on my Vista Sp2 laptop I only got monitor flickering.
I tested under Win7 x64. You might check your monitor settings as well, but my guess is that its sending a system command that some monitors just don't support.
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#18 Post by allclownsareevil »

allclownsareevil wrote:
webfork wrote:What the heck is that Baca Saya.txt file doing in the download?
Don't know, it came with the original rar file so it was archived along with it. I'm guessing a readme file in authors native language perhaps? Would have removed it if it were an executable, but being as it's a txt file I saw no harm leaving it intact.
Have just checked and it appears "Baca Saya" is Malay for "Read Me". You learn something useless everyday.
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

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allclownsareevil wrote:Have just checked and it appears "Baca Saya" is Malay for "Read Me". You learn something useless everyday.
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#20 Post by giulia »

hi
the dropbox link is not working
could not be download
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#21 Post by webfork »

giulia wrote:the dropbox link is not working
Thanks, updated.

Few details for future reference:
  • VirusTotal breakdown
    MD5: 36B32008398657CBDDB860EA4DD0A6F9
    SHA1: A785B3B277980E07C07514A4521B20ED7FC8FA64
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#22 Post by giulia »

webfork wrote:
giulia wrote:the dropbox link is not working
Thanks, updated.

Few details for future reference:
  • VirusTotal breakdown
    MD5: 36B32008398657CBDDB860EA4DD0A6F9
    SHA1: A785B3B277980E07C07514A4521B20ED7FC8FA64
thanks a lot! :D
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Re: Monoff4 1.6

#23 Post by allclownsareevil »

I was unaware the dropbox link went down. No idea why, the file is still hosted there.

All it would have taken is a quick PM to let me know and it would have been sorted same day. I don't tend to check the forums as frequently as some.
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#24 Post by giulia »

Hi
the download link is again down , could be fixed?
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#25 Post by Mixture »

https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip
I managed to download Monoff4.
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#26 Post by giulia »

Mixture wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:23 am https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip
I managed to download Monoff4.
hi
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#27 Post by juverax »

VirusTotal score for https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip : 5-66
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#28 Post by juverax »

Monoff4 ( available at https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip as mentioned above ) has a VirusTotal score of : 5-66.
A possible alternative to monoff4, could be:
http://gizmoware.net/monoff/ (VirusTotal score: 0-68).
Note that this a CLI tool.

I have tried monoff downloaded from gizmoware.net .... I like it and I am going to use it every night.
To be honest, I cannot say that gizmoware monoff is an alternative to monoff4 from https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip since I am not going to take the risk of running monoff4 even it is most probably a false positive !!!
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#29 Post by giulia »

juverax wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:04 pm Monoff4 ( available at https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip as mentioned above ) has a VirusTotal score of : 5-66.
A possible alternative to monoff4, could be:
http://gizmoware.net/monoff/ (VirusTotal score: 0-68).
Note that this a CLI tool.

I have tried monoff downloaded from gizmoware.net .... I like it and I am going to use it every night.
To be honest, I cannot say that gizmoware monoff is an alternative to monoff4 from https://web.archive.org/web/20190304013 ... onoff4.zip since I am not going to take the risk of running monoff4 even it is most probably a false positive !!!
Hi
yes i have noticed after downloading , avast did block the download ,it's marked as Win32:WrongInf-A [Susp] , maybe it's a false positive
don't know submit to avast , they have never answered me
the cli doesn't disable the mouse
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Re: Monoff4 - turns the monitor off

#30 Post by Midas »

FYI, Archive.org 'Monoff4.exe' Sysinternals Sigcheck v2.80 report follows:

Code: Select all

	Verified:	Unsigned
	Link date:	23:24 2009-11-07
	Publisher:	n/a
	Company:	JimBUG Enterprises
	Description:	Put monitor in low power or power off mode.
	Product:	Monoff 4
	Prod version:	1, 6, 0, 0
	File version:	1, 6, 0, 0
	MachineType:	32-bit
	MD5:	B29B0066AAE505850A09A9FB17741662
	SHA1:	41323994C69DC75B640787C520DC7A7B67C50C1A
	SHA256:	BEE2048F1735FF0B44C738F1AEB5BE3B3290B523E8524ED9622B4AD8D113DADE
	IMP:	1488755E92C856C33DA318CD8ABF0CA4
	VT detection:	5/71
	VT link:	https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bee2048f1735ff0b44c738f1aeb5be3b3290b523e8524ed9622b4ad8d113dade/detection
5 security vendors and no sandboxes flagged this file as malicious
@ Virtustotal (URL above)

Of those 5, main ones are Avast and AVG -- the remainder include such household names as Avira, Bitdefender, Eset, Microsoft, and MalwareBytes, which report the file as "undetected"...

Also among the tags attributed by VT: "direct-cpu-clock-access", "invalid-rich-pe-checksum", and "long-sleeps".

Lastly, let me note Archive.org made the mirror snapshot from long time TPFC member tproli's website.
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