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    SFXMaker 1.3.1 Final - a Switchless Installer maker

    in Application Installs

    Posted · Edited by iuli_kyle

    Hello,

    My little tool is used basically to create switchless installers of the installers provided by software developers. It packs that installer in a self-extracting archive which, after executed, will run it with some parameters, silent switches, so there will be minimum, preferably none user interaction over the installation process of that application. What is this useful for ? Just think how much time you can spare if applications will install by them self, of course, with the default settings, but sometimes configurable through the silent switches. This is applicable to Windows installation process (if you want to include your favorite software), or when installing the same software on, let's say, 100 computers (i had to do this, but lucky me had SFXMaker covering my back). Basically this is it ! I let you discover other things :)

    Yeah, it can do what you exemplified, as long as the application is registry independent. Actually ... screw that, it can make installers for applications that use Windows registry, as long as you include the registry along with a batch file and the application itself. But that's more like a portable application, which is not the purpose of my tool.

    Got it now ? :P

    I know my website is just a piece of junk (i made that when i was learning web-developing), i'm actually working on a new one. Stay tuned !

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    Beware Addons with Malware!

    in Malware Prevention and Security

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    Hello there,

    I see this topic a little too late, but i have a word to say here too, as i am the developer of SFXMaker and www.isoft-online.com.

    First of all, SFXMaker is developed using AutoIt. Some crappy "protection" applications (Ad-Aware is one of them) always see au3 compiled executables as "malicious software". Secondly, the executable and some plugins that SFXMaker use are UPXed, which is also known to cause some false positives, again, for this crappy protection apps. Isn't it weird that top rated protection application (BitDefender, Kaspersky, Nod32, etc) didn't find anything ? Think again.

    Also, there were users that reported the sfx module (the old one) that SFXMaker is using for creating the self-extracting executables was the cause of this findings. I'm 110% sure that there's nothing wrong with it and i' not blaming anyone, only these crappy protection apps.

    You're showing us screenshots with the *.ini entries of an nLite addon created by SFXMaker, but do you know by any chance what that means and how it works ? Presuming that something is bad is not enough.

    You know, i feel like a bastard right now. I'm creating an application and share it with you (for free) to make things easier for the community and then people like you come and blame my work, with no apparent strong arguments and no pre-documentation. But what can we do, things aren't always fair in life.

    I wish you a nice day, apologizes are accepted in advance, just in case :)

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