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  #46  
Old May 18th 18, 10:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 17/05/2018 23:32, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:

fearing malware, he actually removed the script:

I removed the script *identified by KnockKnock* as an unknown item.

it's not an unknown item. it's a critical part of mac os.


A good job I still have it then, even though I deleted the copy, eh?!!!


bull****. changing your story so quickly?


Not at all. You simply don't listen!

The relevant REAL file is still installed and can still be found on my
machine. It is NOT, though, found by KnockKnock when 'not including
os/known items' is selected.

not if you removed it, it isn't.


I apparently removed a *COPY*


'apparently'.

you have absolutely no idea what you did or what you're doing.


That's me to a 'T' :-)

I still don't understand why KnockKnock found the 'rogue' script which I
deleted. I'm content now that I've investigated to some extent. :-)

because knockknock and it's ilk are buggy.


A bad workman often blames his tools!


a smart workman knows how the tools work internally, their limitations
and what they are actually telling the user.
a smart workman also knows the purpose of the file in question and why
any tool that claims that such a file is malware is buggy crap.


When I have more time I'll discuss this with Patrick.

https://objective-see.com/about.html

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.


You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.


no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.


YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally. On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which sould have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX

Last login: Fri May 18 06:56:58 on console
Davids-iMac:~ *************$ /Users/***********/Desktop/PromiseSTEX ; exit;
-bash: /Users/*************/Desktop/PromiseSTEX: cannot execute binary file
logout
Saving session...
....copying shared history...
....saving history...truncating history files...
....completed.
Deleting expired sessions...1 completed.

[Process completed]

=

SoftRAID

Last login: Fri May 18 09:45:34 on ttys000
Davids-iMac:~ **************** /Users/************/Desktop/SoftRAID ; exit;
-bash: /Users/**************Desktop/SoftRAID: cannot execute binary file
logout
Saving session...
....copying shared history...
....saving history...truncating history files...
....completed.

[Process completed]

=

My computer is still working well as far as I can tell.

HTH

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  #47  
Old May 18th 18, 10:17 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

Oops!

On *MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have
been there.

Sorry about that!
  #48  
Old May 18th 18, 01:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system
nospam
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.


no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.


YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.


i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which sould have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-


PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID


then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.


=

My computer is still working well as far as I can tell.


that's very unfortunate.

keep removing stuff.
  #49  
Old May 18th 18, 02:14 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.misc
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 15/05/2018 20:07, nospam wrote:
he can't be banned from usenet, nor will his isp shut
him down.


*THE TRUTH WILL OUT* :-)
  #50  
Old May 18th 18, 03:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 18/05/2018 13:59, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.

no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.


YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.


i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.


No, you don't.

Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-wardle-34580581/

Who are *YOU* nospam?

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-


PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID


then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.


You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.

Conversely, because it's doing nothing, it's also just as safe to
delete. It's the moral-equivalent of removing drivers for an old printer
you don't have anymore.

Speaking purely for myself, I prefer to delete them, merely to have a
nice clean system. Which also makes it easier to spot if something were
to get inadvertently installed (i.e. malware, perhaps? Which of course
is why you might've used [immensely useful] KnockKnock in the first
place; to look for software that doesn't belong). Of course, Apple likes
to periodically reinstall these drivers (after a major install / OS
upgrade), so it requires checking / cleaning that folder after new updates."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8304735

My computer is still working well as far as I can tell.


that's very unfortunate.

keep removing stuff.


"5 years later I was looking for this answer on a Sierra install, if you
look at your Macintosh HD and look at the hidden files there is Tmp
folder, there are 2 files there with the SoftRaid_Monitor, you delete
these and you are done. It was bothering me and finally got it to leave
my upper bar!!! Hope this helps."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4368686

--
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  #51  
Old May 18th 18, 04:05 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
nospam
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.

no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.

YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.


i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.


No, you don't.


oh yes i do.

Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.


logical fallacy.

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-


PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID


then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.


You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.


in other words, they're *not* malware and any utility that flags them
is buggy, exactly as i said.

you just proved my point and are too stupid to realize it.
  #52  
Old May 18th 18, 05:07 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 18/05/2018 16:05, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.

no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.

YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.

i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.


No, you don't.


oh yes i do.


Oh! No, you DON'T! (said with a Punch & Judy voice!)

Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.


logical fallacy.


Rubbish! YOU *are* a non-entity, 'nospam'.

You don't even have a Facebook account!

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID

then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.


You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.


in other words, they're *not* malware and any utility that flags them
is buggy, exactly as i said.

you just proved my point and are too stupid to realize it.


KnockKnock never mentioned MALWARE - and neither did *I* :-P

My enquiry was simply about a Script, nothing more.

Seems to me you jumped to a wrong conclusion!

--
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  #53  
Old May 18th 18, 05:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
nospam
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

In article , David B.
wrote:


Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.


logical fallacy.


Rubbish! YOU *are* a non-entity, 'nospam'.

You don't even have a Facebook account!


are you that stupid that you're searching for nospam on facebook?

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID

then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.

You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.


in other words, they're *not* malware and any utility that flags them
is buggy, exactly as i said.

you just proved my point and are too stupid to realize it.


KnockKnock never mentioned MALWARE - and neither did *I* :-P


yes it does, plus all you ever talk about is malware.

https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html
Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it is automatically
executed each time a computer is restarted. KnockKnock uncovers
persistently installed software in order to generically reveal such
malware.

My enquiry was simply about a Script, nothing more.


clearly not.

the two files you mentioned above are *not* scripts.

you change your story with every post.

Seems to me you jumped to a wrong conclusion!


nope.
  #54  
Old May 18th 18, 05:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 17/05/2018 11:22, David B. wrote:
On 17/05/2018 08:36, Auric__ wrote:
David B. wrote:

I also enquired he

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...ter-place-to-a

sk-my-question/


You really should pick a single forum to ask a question in. There's no
real
need to ask your question all over the place.


Point taken.

Have you tried KnockKnock?


No

If so, with what result? I'm 99.99% certain
that it will not harm your computers.

https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html


I imagine it's fine, but I'm not really interested in trying it.


OK. No biggie.

Have a grand day :-)


FYI

Here's what Thomas Reed has said:-

That is the rc.common script, which should be found he

/etc/rc.common

This is a script that is no longer used on modern macOS, but it's still
present. It can be a means for providing persistence to malware (malware
can add malicious lines of code to this script). However, I've tested
this on systems from 10.7 and up, and that no longer works. I have been
unable to get custom code added to rc.common to actually run on those
systems.

So, tl;dr: it's a normal file, and it cannot be used for malicious
purposes on 10.7 and up.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...omment-1243146

--
David B.

  #55  
Old May 18th 18, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc
Wolffan
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

On 18 May 2018, nospam wrote
(in ) :

In , David B.
wrote:


Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.

logical fallacy.


Rubbish! YOU *are* a non-entity, 'nospam'.

You don't even have a Facebook account!


are you that stupid that you're searching for nospam on facebook?


trollboy’s sufficiently stupid that he’s created a thread to try to get
people explicitly described as _lurkers_ to reply to him.

Are you _still_ banned from ASC, trollboy? Are you so thick that you can’t
see that attempting to troll ASC mods on c.s.m.s would be counter-productive?
As you have no bloody clue who might or might not be a ASC mod, how do you
plan on being able to tell if your troll attempt worked? Or did you think
that far ahead, trollboy?



On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID

then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.


It’s impossible for trollboy to be dumber than _I_ think he is. At that
level of idiocy, he’d forget to breathe. Hmm... perhaps he’s got
brain-damage due to anoxia from forgetting to breathe... That would explain
much.

You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!


Nah, he’s quite accurate. You, now...


"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.

in other words, they're *not* malware and any utility that flags them
is buggy, exactly as i said.

you just proved my point and are too stupid to realize it.


KnockKnock never mentioned MALWARE - and neither did *I* :-P


yes it does,


of course it does
plus all you ever talk about is malware.


well... he mostly talks about how utilities developed by people who have
attracted his ire are obviously platforms for deploying malware...despite
never being able to support his claims. he also tries, very clumsily, to get
people to give him information that he can use to stalk them. And he runs
away, sulking, when he gets, ahem, ‘thoroughly sodomised’. Given how
often that happens to him, I’d have thought that either he’d be used to
it by now or he’d stop doing things which resulted in his being gang
butt-****ed.



https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html
Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it is automatically
executed each time a computer is restarted. KnockKnock uncovers
persistently installed software in order to generically reveal such
malware.

My enquiry was simply about a Script, nothing more.


oh, my.

clearly not.

the two files you mentioned above are *not* scripts.


he doesn’t know what a script is. He’s simply too ****ing stupid.


you change your story with every post.


he lies all the time. He lies when telling the truth would help his case.
He’s stupid that way.


Seems to me you jumped to a wrong conclusion!


nope.


Trollboy exists for one reason, and one reason only: to provide
entertainment.

  #56  
Old May 18th 18, 05:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
nospam
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

In article s.com,
Wolffan wrote:

Trollboy exists for one reason, and one reason only: to provide
entertainment.


if so, then he's a failure.
  #57  
Old May 18th 18, 06:05 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
David B.[_7_]
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might'do'?

On 18/05/2018 17:18, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:


Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.

logical fallacy.


Rubbish! YOU *are* a non-entity, 'nospam'.

You don't even have a Facebook account!


are you that stupid that you're searching for nospam on facebook?


Certainly not!

If you give me your full name I'll look for you! :-)

On
*MY* computer it found an *extra* script file which should not have been
there. It ALSO found two other items, both of which have now been
removed too:-

PromiseSTEX
SoftRAID

then the app is buggier than i thought and you're dumber than i thought.

You really do talk a load of ********, nospam!

"As others have stated, this is a driver for Promise Technology RAID
storage solutions. It is installed by macOS, presumably as a convenience
should you ever plug one in. If you look in that folder, you'll see
drivers for other RAID solutions as well. If one is not detected by the
Mac, it is not loaded by the system. So, it's literally doing nothing,
and safe to leave alone.

in other words, they're *not* malware and any utility that flags them
is buggy, exactly as i said.

you just proved my point and are too stupid to realize it.


KnockKnock never mentioned MALWARE - and neither did *I* :-P


yes it does, plus all you ever talk about is malware.

https://objective-see.com/products/knockknock.html
Malware installs itself persistently, to ensure it is automatically
executed each time a computer is restarted. KnockKnock uncovers
persistently installed software in order to generically reveal such
malware.


Hmmm. OK, I'll concede on that point.

My enquiry was simply about a Script, nothing more.


clearly not.

the two files you mentioned above are *not* scripts.


I know that already - but they've been dispatched anyway!

you change your story with every post.

Seems to me you jumped to a wrong conclusion!


nope.


FYI

Here's what Thomas Reed has said:-

That is the rc.common script, which should be found he

/etc/rc.common

This is a script that is no longer used on modern macOS, but it's still
present. It can be a means for providing persistence to malware (malware
can add malicious lines of code to this script). However, I've tested
this on systems from 10.7 and up, and that no longer works. I have been
unable to get custom code added to rc.common to actually run on those
systems.

So, tl;dr: it's a normal file, and it cannot be used for malicious
purposes on 10.7 and up.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topi...omment-1243146

--
David B.
  #58  
Old May 18th 18, 11:12 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.misc
Wolffan
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

On 18 May 2018, nospam wrote
(in ) :

In upernews.com,
Wolffan wrote:

Trollboy exists for one reason, and one reason only: to provide
entertainment.


if so, then he's a failure.


Don’t be that way. Trollboy’s _fun_. He’s the most incompetent poster
I’ve seen on usenet since Karl Crawford hung it up, combined with being the
most despised poster since Marr Giwer. I never thought that I’d see _that_
particular combination. Watching him dig himself deeper and deeper; taking
notes of what silliness he emits today only to contradict himself a week
later because he can’t keep his lies straight; feeding him straight lines
which any halfway intelligent person would _know_ were just bait and watching
him gulp them down; telling him in advance what I think of him and then
feeding him _more_ bait... what’s not to love?

  #59  
Old May 18th 18, 11:48 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Steve Carroll
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On 18/05/18 23:12, Wolffan wrote:
On 18 May 2018, nospam wrote
(in ) :

In upernews.com,
Wolffan wrote:

Trollboy exists for one reason, and one reason only: to provide
entertainment.


if so, then he's a failure.


Don’t be that way. Trollboy’s _fun_. He’s the most incompetent poster
I’ve seen on usenet since Karl Crawford hung it up, combined with being the
most despised poster since Marr Giwer. I never thought that I’d see _that_
particular combination. Watching him dig himself deeper and deeper; taking
notes of what silliness he emits today only to contradict himself a week
later because he can’t keep his lies straight; feeding him straight lines
which any halfway intelligent person would _know_ were just bait and watching
him gulp them down; telling him in advance what I think of him and then
feeding him _more_ bait... what’s not to love?



I'll bet you've not considered that YOU, in actual fact, are the bait
Wolffan and that he's doing a really great job of trolling YOU. :-D

  #60  
Old May 19th 18, 01:31 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Char Jackson
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Default OT: Scripts - can anyone here understand what this one might 'do'?

On Fri, 18 May 2018 15:51:11 +0100, "David B."
wrote:

On 18/05/2018 13:59, nospam wrote:
In article , David B.
wrote:

you also have zero knowledge of what's going on internally to
understand what any such utility is actually telling you.

You'd be amazed at how much I've learned by experimentation.

no i wouldn't, because it's absolutely nothing.

had you learned *anything*, you wouldn't repeatedly ask the *same*
questions over and over and over and over again.

YOU have been afraid to investigate the KnockKnock result personally.


i don't need to investigate anything because i know what the files are
for.


No, you don't.

Your help and advice is not to be trusted. You are an unknown quantity
who hides from reality whereas the developer of KnockKnok is well known
and a guru in his field.

https://www.linkedin.com/stalking link removed


He only gets your approval until he declines to 'friend' you on
Facebook. At that point, he switches teams and becomes someone to be
stalked, err, investigated, err, stalked.

Who are *YOU* nospam?


Why, so you can check LinkedIn and Facebook for personal details, family
history, related obituaries, and links to more family and friends?
That's what you tried to do with me and countless others before me.

My computer is still working well as far as I can tell.


Since the computer in question is an iMac, your questions are off topic
in the Windows group.


 




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