Tweakeze

[freewod]

A software solution that is designed to help you watch (monitor) changes on Microsoft Windows File System and Registry Databases.




The application uses a set of pre-defined or custom instructions called "Watchers".



Any change to the data being watched can trigger pre-defined or custom (vbscript, jscript, PowerShell, batch file) Actions.

For more information:
Tweakeze.com

Download:
Portable
Zip

Reviews:
SoftPedia - https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Fi ... keze.shtml
G2 - https://www.g2.com/products/tweakeze/reviews

[webfork]

Interesting stuff and welcome to the site, are you the dev?

I read through the license, looks like freeware for non-commercial use, but not seeing a pathway to buying a commercial license, if someone wanted to go that route. Softpedia is listing it as "donationware."

[freewod]

Hi webfork,

You are right, it is freeware for non-commercial use.

We will try to keep it that way by asking users to contribute:
https://tweakeze.com/dc/

Once users contribute, they get a badge that they can activate and will have full access in case we ever have to lock some features to make money...

Business are encourage to try. We will post on our site how to buy for commercial usage.

At the moment, we want as many users (consumer/business) as possible to try and give us feedback.

We hope that with this approach we can get the word out and people like our software and want to either buy or contribute.

Thanks!

[webfork]

Got it, thanks. I don't know how much of a problem this is, but you might wish to add something to the license around "Reproduce, copy, distribute, resell or otherwise use the Software for any commercial purpose, excluding those that have purchased a license (https://tweakeze.com/dc/)"

[freewod]

Thank you for you suggestion, I will ask the lawyers to amend it.

[slmnx]

VirusTotal has 8 detections and it is potentially unsafe. Also, FSecure blocked it on my PC immediately after download and that rarely happens.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ad2 ... /detection

[Midas]

IMHO, not surprising, as Tweakeze is a system settings modifier -- note how most of those flags contain "generic" and at least one mention of "PUA"...

I'd worry if at least one of those flags came from a big AV house (like Eset, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Emsisoft, Malwarebytes and such).

[freewod]

Hi slmnx,

I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with our installer and FSecure blocking it.

You analyzed the installer which is just a NSIS installer and we guarantee you that it does not contain any viruses or any other form of malware. Actually the only thing in it is the executable Tweakeze.exe.

You can always use the ZIP file and extract Tweakeze.exe which is the most important part of all this.
https://tweakeze.com/get/zip

Here is the link to Virustotal for Tweakeze.exe:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cb5 ... 8d/details

we also guarantee that there is not viruses or malware even though it shows 2 detections.
Please make sure you download from us directly.
https://tweakeze.com/get/zip
https://tweakeze.com/get/portable

We are trying to create a product to help people organize and maintain their computer and would never ship anything that could harm your computer or any form of malware, virus, adware and etc.

I hope this helps and please feel free to contact us directly if you have any questions:
info@tweakeze.com

Thank you!

[webfork]

@Freewod: Can you submit the program to a site like Softpedia that does it's own malware analysis?

[freewod]

Hi webfork,

It is there already see my first post, but here is the link:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Fi ... keze.shtml

100% Clean

Thanks

[slmnx]

Hi slmnx,

I am sorry to hear that you are having issues with our installer and FSecure blocking it.

Thank you for your reply.. i am just a free software reviewer(on ILoveFreeSoftware) so I just test quite a lot of software and then write about them. It is just this is something I came after a long time so just shared it. I will give it a try.

[freewod]

@slmnx
Thank you so much for bringing this up and your help.
We will make all efforts to eliminate these issues.
Again, please accept our apologies.

[webfork]

It is there already see my first post

I missed that, thanks

We will make all efforts to eliminate these issues.
Again, please accept our apologies.

Without getting into a lot of background that I'm a little tired of chasing, you may not be able to fully eliminate false-positives about your software, since it relies on a lot of different AV services that never quite agree. To be clear, we do prefer to highlight programs with low VT numbers, but even the current rating doesn't exclude involvement here on TPFC. We have a few programs we're confident are safe but are going on multiple years being flagged as "potentially unwanted." My favorite is Bat to EXE Converter: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1660

Nirsoft's False Positive post is instructive here: https://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/05/17/ant ... evelopers/

[freewod]

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that we have been working hard to make sure antivirus stop flagging our software.

As part of our efforts, we are now an incorporation named
Tweakeze Software Inc
We also have a code sign certificate and all our deliverables are now properly signed:

Anyway we have a new release v1.11.520 and here is the updates: https://tweakeze.com/download.php
- All deliverables signed with digital signature by Tweakeze Software Inc
- Added Session Watcher for all supported Chromium based browsers
- Added support for Yandex browser
- Added support to expand/collapse panels in Creator
- Improve Compatible INI support by detecting/adding known EXEs triggers
- Added support to custom Chromium and Mozilla based browsers in Creator screen
- New System category with General and Privacy Watchers
- New Watchers for:
Memory Dumps, Chkdsk File Fragments, Windows Error Reporting, Menu Order Cache, Tray Notifications Cache, Window Size/Location Cache, Thumbnail Cache, Recent Documents, Run Dialog Box Typed History, Search Assistant MRUs, Windows Explorer MRUs, Windows Explorer Typed Paths, User Assist History, Network Passwords
- Bug fixes, performance and UI improvements

Please let us know your opinion!

Thank you so much!

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/830 ... /detection
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/569 ... /detection

[Midas]

Thanks for letting us know, freewod. Much appreciated.