CamStudio - screen recording

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Re: CamStudio Screen capture utility

#31 Post by Midas »

That OpenLoad download is displaying some ominous warning...

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I took the liberty to create mirrors through MirrorCreator.com. Everyone pick your poison:

https://mir.cr/RUWFRTKI

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Re: CamStudio Screen capture utility

#32 Post by webfork »

Don54 wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:24 am I have updated X-CamStudio to the latest version I could find: 2.7.4 r354.
You can download it here: https://openload.cc/7fN1tf09n3/X-CamStudio_2.7.4_7z .
Attention: This link is not permananet!
The current x-Camstudio links work fine. What is this about?
Midas wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:35 am That OpenLoad download is displaying some ominous warning...
Yeah that's not great.

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Re: CamStudio Screen capture utility

#33 Post by Midas »

Some further info on the previously mirrored X-CamStudio archive, resulting in an overall score of 11/53.

Virustotal analysis:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/134 ... /detection

Upon extraction, it appears to be a modified WinPenPack portable version, with a later version (i.e., v2.7.4) and a smaller footprint than the one currently being offered for download (v2.7.2 rev5):

http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.726

Upon further checking the main executable ('recorder.exe', the one invoked by the portable launcher), the results came up clean (0/70):

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7ff ... /detection

I'm not vouching for this file as there are plenty of other vectors for a malware attack (e.g., the launcher itself -- which, incidentally, is also clean) but, in view of the previous bad results with portable launchers, I fear our response may have been disproportionate.

As I said before, I don't put a lot of stock on similar warnings from free file hosters, which themselves have been know to attempt to trick users into downloading malware. With my previous warning, I was mostly attempting to document the fact, as well as checking if fellow users were getting the same notice.

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