Ed Cryer wrote:
Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Monty wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2018 23:03:20 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:


BTW, if anyone knows where I can get Daemon Tools Lite & Imgburn
without
bundled malware, please let me know.

Ed


Â* www.daemon-tools.cc


That's where I got the free (with ads) version a day ago; and it
sent my AVs wild with anger. I've run MBAM, Spybot and Adwcleaner
to ferret out its droppings.

Ed

Daemon Tools Lite doesn't seem to have a lot of features.
Compared to the paid versions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_Tools

It's possible you could get an ISO9660 mounter (virtual cd) from
Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/down....aspx?id=38780

And a program like 7ZIP, allows extracting individual files
directly from an ISO9660 file.

https://www.7-zip.org

Granted, Daemon Tools Lite supports more formats, but for
external content coming into the machine, you may be able to
bodge together a solution with existing offerings.

Â*From my notes, it's possible this will convert a
folder of files, into an ISO9660 image. I may have been
using a recipe like this, to pass files into a VM environment
with broken networking. WSUSOffline is normally a tool for
preparing a set of security updates for windows, but it also
uses freeware tools for environment support. And it happens
to have some sort of port of mkisofs.

http://download.wsusoffline.net/mkisofs.exe

mkisofs -V "TESTIMG0" -J -r -o 0.iso ./0

The WADK kit may have had "oscdimg.exe", which is
a Microsoft tool that authors bootable installer discs.
This method used to work, to convert Windows 10 Insider download
folder contents, into an installer DVD, but it stopped working
over a year ago (once the Delta encoding era started).
The WADK kit would still have the capability of remastering
install media (customizing Windows installs). This was just
an interesting reuse of the tools.

https://deploymentresearch.com/Resea...y-tools-needed


Â*Â*Â* Paul

Thanks Paul. I'll abandon Daemon Lite and go for something else.
I only ever used it to mount iso's, anyway.
7ZIP I've been using for years, without knowing that it could survey
iso's.
As for mounting iso's there are heaps of freeware available; and this
list has your suggestion as no 1.
https://goo.gl/x46isH

Ed

The 7ZIP 16.04 or higher, has added the ability to tunnel into
a bitmap copy of a hard drive, and burrow into the partitions
it recognizes. But the capability is marred by bad handling of
CHS geometry issues, so it doesn't always work. It was actually
working better when if first came out. But just about everything
I try to feed it today, it refuses to examine. It seems to
work best with "legacy MBR" disk images. A previous version
was hammering the usage of system RAM pretty hard, but the
algorithm got changed to a better streaming approach (which
he uses for a lot of his stuff).

So in terms of what version of 7ZIP you want, you can move up
to 16.04 if seeking the "maximum number of can openers". It will
open a WIM but not an ESD. And it doesn't really handle
"code packers" at all, of which there are 20-30 formats or so.
Your AV products have to handle those when scanning. But for most
day-to-day usages cases, "7ZIP handles everything" :-)

Usually, if a download involves a code packer, and the file
size is too large to upload to virustotal for analysis, that's
a sign it's "a bomb" and you probably don't want to run the
thing anyway :-)

Â*Â*Â* Paul

I've found out that Win10 has its own generic iso-mounting capability.
It's in the context menu of iso files, but with the restriction that
they have to be on an NTFS-formatted medium.

Ed


https://goo.gl/HD4wem

Ed