A Registry Editor that's not stuck in the Stone Age?

[Uwe Sieber]

Uwe,

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mailpv.html

Known Problems
False Alert Problems: Some Antivirus programs detect Mail PassView utility as
infected with Trojan/Virus.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mspass.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-021315-0352-99

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html

Known Problems
False Alert Problems: Some Antivirus programs detect Protected Storage PassView
utility as infected with Trojan/Virus.
Recent update: Norton Antivirus detect Protected Storage Passview as an hack
tool.

All false alarms. The tools do what they pretend to do. No
reason for a general Nir Sofer software warning.

I have even seen people selling the tools from Nirsoft on Ebay. I let Ebay & the
creator know & the posts were deleted

These people tried to make money selling Nir's freeware?
The, good work, but where is reason for a general Nir Sofer
software warning?

 

[XS11E]

My point is that someone who uses his real name wants to
keep up his good name, while a pseudo man has nothing to
keep up.
Using the real name makes you think twice before pressing
the send button or publishing software.

and exposes you to spam, identity theft, etc.

It's your choice, of course.

 

[Zilbandy]

I like their programs & use the Protected Storage utility, but 'pspv.exe' is
picked up on a realtime scan

So, tell your scanner to ignore it. Problem solved.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

Newbie Coder wrote:

Only by some anti-virus programs that report false positives. They have
a 100% clean virus/malware site. But many of the anti-virus programmers
continually ignore their emails to fix their programs that give false
positives.

Some of the tools are risk-relevant, because they can be used to do
things that the user may not be aware of, or approve of.

The only one I've seen raise an alert in Kaspersky, A-Squared and AVG
Antispyware, has been the ProduKey tool. This displays product keys
as entered when installing Windows and MS Office.

It's risk-relevant, because if I were to use this tool, I could steal
your product keys, use them to install my software, sing some song to
the activation people, and then go "why yes, I'd love to register".
Then if your system needed to be activated for some reason, you might
be told "it's already activated *and* registered by someone else".

Note also the difference between www.nirsoft.net (the good guys) and
www.nirsoft . com (who appear to be a domain-squatter).

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Error Messages Are Your Friends

 

[Kelly]

Wrong again: 3.1 - Vista.

BTW, your village called.

 

[Dave F.]

and exposes you to spam, identity theft, etc.

It's your choice, of course.

Hi

I seem to have started a storm (in a tea cup)

I was unaware that you could be spamming & fleeced by just a user name.
I understand from a legit email, bur from a name?
How does that happen?

Cheers
Dave F.

 

[XS11E]

I seem to have started a storm (in a tea cup)

Shouldn't. The important thing to understand is that some people post
here anonymously for a good reason and shouldn't be critized for doing
so.

I was unaware that you could be spamming & fleeced by just a user
name. I understand from a legit email, bur from a name?
How does that happen?

Your name gives people the beginning of a Google or other people
searches, some much more invasive than Google. You'd be surprised at
how much information is available about you on line and, of course,
your IPA address allows people to find the city from where you post if
you're not using an anonymous reposter.

In your case, "Dave F." isn't enough to get anyone started but many
here use their full name which I'd prefer not to do... a first name,
middle initial, last name and IP address can turn up an awful lot of
information about you.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Kelly,

Yeah Yeah - you ain't done squat

Your previous reply that Curt liked showed how shoddy you are

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

and exposes you to spam, identity theft, etc.

It's your choice, of course.

Using a real E-mail address certainly presents such risk, but using a
real name doesn't.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Wrong again: 3.1 - Vista.

BTW, your village called.

Lemme guess: it's missing an idiot, right?

 

[XS11E]

Using a real E-mail address certainly presents such risk, but
using a real name doesn't.

Not correct, Ken, see my earlier reply.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Not correct, Ken, see my earlier reply.

I did, and I still think I'm correct.

You said "and exposes you to spam, identity theft, etc."

1. Spam.

What I said (quoted above) is clearly and certainly correct with
respect to spam. No spammer is going to go to the trouble of doing
online research for real names he finds on newsgroups. He wants real
E-mail addresses, not names, and those that he can easily harvest with
spambots.

2. Identity theft.

I'm almost certainly in the minority here, but I think that the risk
of identify theft is greatly overstated by the news media. Reports of
things like identity theft sell newspapers, and the media search out
and report on every example they can find. I don't claim that identity
theft doesn't exist, but that the risk is nowhere near as great as
it's presented. I know many people, for example, who are afraid to buy
anything on the internet, because they've been taught to fear
"identity theft." I, on the other hand, hardly buy anything anywhere
else, and I've never had a problem.

Moreover, newsgroups don't necessarily provide any more of a starting
place for identity theft than anyplace else. There's no particular
reason why somebody who wants to use someone else's SS number, credit
card number, or any other information about him should go to the
newsgroups to find somebody's name. Yes, if you have a real name, you
can get a lot of information about the person, but if it's real names
you're looking for, the telephone book is a much easier place to
start. The point is that identify thieves don't target particular
people on newsgroups; they target anybody whose personal information
gets to them.

3. etc.

Since I don't know what you mean by "etc.," I have no response here.

 

[XS11E]

I did, and I still think I'm correct.

You said "and exposes you to spam, identity theft, etc."

1. Spam.

What I said (quoted above) is clearly and certainly correct with
respect to spam. No spammer is going to go to the trouble of doing
online research for real names he finds on newsgroups. He wants
real E-mail addresses, not names, and those that he can easily
harvest with spambots.

Correct.... mostly.

2. Identity theft.

I'm almost certainly in the minority here, but I think that the
risk of identify theft is greatly overstated by the news media.

If the media is to be believed, it's the fastest growing crime in my
state...

Moreover, newsgroups don't necessarily provide any more of a
starting place for identity theft than anyplace else.

Correct, they provide as much a starting place as anyplace else and
using a nym and false email addy only eliminate that one place but...
why not? Like all problems, it's addressed one step at a time.

3. etc.

Since I don't know what you mean by "etc.," I have no response
here.

Let's hope you don't find out, there are some very malicious people on
usenet. Check out the Vista group to see some of them. :-(

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Correct.... mostly.


If the media is to be believed, it's the fastest growing crime in my
state...

That could be true. It's a relatively new crime, and new and
fast-growing go together. That's not the same as affecting large
numbers of people.

Let me also point out that if you eat in a restaurant, pay by giving
you credit card to the waiter, who takes it to another room where he
copies your number and subsequently uses it for his own purposes, the
media will call that "identity theft." I wouldn't be surprised if that
kind of fraud isn't the largest segment of what's called "identity
theft." I use credit cards every day, in restaurants, stores, on the
internet, etc. It has never happened to me. It has never happened to
anyone else I know either, except for one person *possibly* (he's not
sure how his number got used). And if it does happen, other than it
being an inconvenience, in most cases, it will be the credit card
company who is out the money, not the consumer, who at most is liable
for $50 (and that is usually waived).

Yes there's a risk, but in my view it's very slight, and I don't worry
about it.

Correct, they provide as much a starting place as anyplace else and
using a nym and false email addy only eliminate that one place but...
why not? Like all problems, it's addressed one step at a time.


Let's hope you don't find out, there are some very malicious people on
usenet. Check out the Vista group to see some of them. :-(

Yes, I've seen some of them there, and I'm well aware that there are
malicious people on Usenet. There are malicious people everywhere.

 

[Terry R.]

On 7/25/2007 11:56 AM On a whim, Ken Blake, MVP pounded out on the keyboard

That could be true. It's a relatively new crime, and new and
fast-growing go together. That's not the same as affecting large
numbers of people.

Let me also point out that if you eat in a restaurant, pay by giving
you credit card to the waiter, who takes it to another room where he
copies your number and subsequently uses it for his own purposes, the
media will call that "identity theft." I wouldn't be surprised if that
kind of fraud isn't the largest segment of what's called "identity
theft." I use credit cards every day, in restaurants, stores, on the
internet, etc. It has never happened to me. It has never happened to
anyone else I know either, except for one person *possibly* (he's not
sure how his number got used). And if it does happen, other than it
being an inconvenience, in most cases, it will be the credit card
company who is out the money, not the consumer, who at most is liable
for $50 (and that is usually waived).

Yes there's a risk, but in my view it's very slight, and I don't worry
about it.

A big one happening around here right now is Arco station card theft.
My wife used to buy her gas there until last week. A day after she
filled up, a $500 withdrawal happened in a close city nearby. And
another $500 withdrawal in another city. I only found out by checking
her account online for another transaction. A call to her bank said
that Arco stations have been hit by people who are able to retrieve all
the info off the card immediately, create a fake one, and use the PIN.
So until Arco gets that fixed, she's using a credit card. At least then
it can be disputed. I was surprised the bank told my wife they would
reimburse her, especially since it was a debit card.



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Terry R.

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[dobey]

A big one happening around here right now is Arco station card theft. My
wife used to buy her gas there until last week. A day after she filled
up, a $500 withdrawal happened in a close city nearby. And another $500
withdrawal in another city. I only found out by checking her account
online for another transaction. A call to her bank said that Arco
stations have been hit by people who are able to retrieve all the info off
the card immediately, create a fake one, and use the PIN. So until Arco
gets that fixed, she's using a credit card. At least then it can be
disputed. I was surprised the bank told my wife they would reimburse her,
especially since it was a debit card.

Most "identity theft" occurs at the mail box, and credit card detail thefts
can occur anywhere.

Don't forget skimmers that are put on ATMs to capture details when someone
accesses their account through the machine.

 

[XS11E]

Most "identity theft" occurs at the mail box, and credit card
detail thefts can occur anywhere.

Don't forget skimmers that are put on ATMs to capture details when
someone accesses their account through the machine.

There's many ways identity theft can occur, if I can eliminate one way
or at least make it more difficult I'll do so. Among the precautions I
take is to not post with my real name or email address.

As always, YMMV.

 

[Guest]

--
It is a poor student who does not surpass his master

Hi
Using XP.

I'm after (preferably freeware) a registry editor that allows me to
search for a certain text string through the whole of the registry &
display all results in a dialog instead of asking me to press F3 after
every find.

Does such a program exist?

Thanks for your help.

Dave F.

I have never found a free one that was any good. Most of the ones I have
tried were worse then the one that comes with windows,

Also the command line switches that someone was mentioning can be found here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/82821

Robert
MCP and MCDST: Windows XP

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

I'm after (preferably freeware) a registry editor that allows me to
search for a certain text string through the whole of the registry &
display all results in a dialog instead of asking me to press F3 after
every find.

Does such a program exist?

Yes - I use Nirsoft's RegScanner a lot for exactly this reason.

www.nirsoft.net

The procedure is:
- do your search in RegScanner
- you will see all the results, and how many there are
- you can "enter" any of these, which runs RegEdit there
- you can also save all or a selection of these from RegScanner

You can use this from a Bart CDR boot too, but there is a caveat, if
you wish to operate relative to the inactive HD registry via the
RunScanner plugin; you must first run Regedit via RunScanner, so that
when your RunScanner'd RegScanner spawns Regedit to edit what you
find, it will pass to the RunScanner'd Regedit instance that's already
running. Else Regedit will show you the Bart registry instead.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

On the other hand you should be careful with GM cars, some of them are
used as getaway cars in bank robberies...

Haw! That would explain why the cops usually catch them.