omega said:
TO UNINSTALL IT:
The preference regkey, it's here:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ð++\Tip of the Day]
That irresponsibly funky Ð++ string, which was used for developer key,
some progs can't handle that, such as reg.exe, and maybe TUN. Even the
program's own uninstall routine (TipOfDay.exe -u) can't cope.
I'd run the TipOfDay.exe -u command to test its effect.
It deleted my /entire/ HKCU branch.
I didn't catch that for a couple hours. Until noticing explorer looking very
gross, having been reset to its defaults (with extensions hidden, etc).
To get my previous copy of user.dat, from before the mass delete, I had
to reboot, and do a scanreg/restore from DOS.
I've removed the program from the upload. I'll have to pray that no-one
else ran the command. And that if anywone happened to download it, they
read this message.
TipOfDAy had never giving me problems running it. But the fact that it has
a command, and one suggested right in its tips file, which does the extreme
destruction to the registry... well, obviously that is not something I am
too joyed about possibly having passed around anywhere.
Btw, I happen to see this as totally unrelated to a2's "GabanBus" trojan
flag. (That which supposed to be a port scanner or something).
I see it as /very/ bad programming. Bad programming in the first place to
have created a developer key that does not stick with standard alpha-numeric
characters. I've seen that fault elsewhere too, and it causes problems.
Then of course, frightfully bad programming to have a command which results
in destruction of an entire root branch of the registry.
It's likely a bug alone, from bad programming -- and not malicious in
intent. But the end result is the same. Again, sorry, and really hope
no one else ran the command.
