AllMedia Grabber 4.0Comments on:

By: blatanville

blatanville — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:36:46 +0000

I just checked the GAOTD forum, and there’s a helpful forum post from BuBBY, an admin: “Late Emails? – Use RSS Feed”
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5296

What the hell? Why not FIX the problem, GAOTD?

By: henry

henry — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:59:43 +0000

i am putting your site in the junk category–every time i go to the ‘giveway’ site i am told it is no longer available–hh

By: sam green

sam green — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:34:02 +0000

Just to be clear when I suspected it to be a virus and double clicked it I had Returnil protection turned on which was offered once on this website but I have the full version … this allows u to test anything safely and once u restart anything that u did while the protection is on is gone. I would never double click on a virus without taking measures … ok the uninstall.exe i got it … but why did it create a irsetup.exe google this file it is known as a trojan . to see where it is created however u have to enable see hidden files and uncheck the hide system folders in the folder options of explorer .

By: Fubar

Fubar — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:35 +0000

Wow, what pathetic comments. This is a resource extractor, not a file finder. The various resource extractors aren’t all the same. This finds a wide range of embedded file types. Although the scanning is quick, some things are slow, such as reading directories/folders, and the window update during scanning. What 330 KB limit? It found resources larger than that. If you use WOT, SiteAdvisor, and even worse, if you can’t figure out how to use them, or if you can’t figure out how to use this (it works and saves/copies fine, and it doesn’t contain any malware), then your parents should return you and request a refund. While past versions had some image-file corruption issues, I didn’t notice any with this version.

By: TK

TK — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:25:01 +0000

#27 uninstall.exe is launched by an shortcut in the Allmedia grabber folder in the start menu tree… look at the properties of the shortcut:

“C:\Windows\AllMedia Grabber\uninstall.exe” “/U:C:\Program Files\AllMedia Grabber\Uninstall\uninstall.xml”

it takes uninstall.xml as a command line parameter to tell it what to do to remove the application. Of course you will get an error if you just double click on the uninstall.exe file as you have not given it the XML instruction file to tell it what to do. A litle knowledge is dangerous and in your case caused you to waste time and effort and panic thinking its a virus… simply upload the fle to virustotal.com and get a more informed opinion.

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/302652c014c05f04acb93e7ed45f9f2f

And why oh why would you double-click on a file you suspect to be a virus? Craaaaazy!
I’m more inclined to believe that is a false positive due to overzealous heuristics rather than proper patern matching of real “virus” code. It’s hardley an effective strategy to try and spread a worm, which is what is really suspected, as an unistall program because there is a very good probability it will never be executed by most users so would never propogate!

By: Blackstickman

Blackstickman — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:59:42 +0000

Sam Green @27, uninstall.exe does uninstall the program. Maybe your antivirus is preventing the program from launching because it thinks it is a virus.

By: Isaactoo

Isaactoo — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:22:43 +0000

freeware alternative – http://www.elberethzone.net/lang-en/dup-description.html

By: softv

softv — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:59:04 +0000

Can come handy at times. Keeping it. It throws up an update window though, every time I start it. Is that the normal case? Any way to avoid it?

By: Thomas Peters Sr,

Thomas Peters Sr, — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:54:37 +0000

Wonder why when I installed this the computer locked up. On restart, clicking on the Allmedia Grabber 4.0 icon brings up Windows Explorer? Can’t register the program since I never see the program. A thumbs down from me.

By: Viper1

Viper1 — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:35:51 +0000

Sorry, But I tried this program…
Easy install but AVG and Norton Flagged it for spyware…
Ohhh I know that PGAOTD says it is free of all that… but

DEL and defrag was my response.
Yep it found a bunch of pictures etc… but were they really needed or wanted??? Hmmm My answer was NO… so it does as it says – but becareful.