Comments on: ZIPEncryptFTP

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:50:17 +0000

No problem. One of the design requirements for this program was working without an installation program. That’s why the program itself will register its event source the first time it is run. This requires admin rights, but only the first time.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:57:34 +0000

Sorry, I’m still getting used to Vista. I ran it from an account with admin privileges, but did not realize I also had to explicitly select “Run as administrator”. Thanks for your help, this utility is awesome.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:12:58 +0000

@James:

Did you follow my advise?
> It will write to the Application eventlog, so you need to run it the first time with administrator privileges,
> to register ZIPEncryptFTP with the eventlog.

Don’t forget that Vista’s UAC force you to explicitly select “Run as administrator”

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:51:34 +0000

The program does not seem to run on Vista

Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found
, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security
.
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.FindSourceRegistration(String source, String m
achineName, Boolean readOnly)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(String source, String machineName
)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.VerifyAndCreateSource(String sourceName, Strin
g currentMachineName)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String message, EventLogEntryType t
ype, Int32 eventID, Int16 category, Byte[] rawData)
at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(String message, EventLogEntryType t
ype, Int32 eventID)
at ZipEncryptFTP.MyEventLog.WriteID(EventLogEntryType eventType, IDs id)
at ZipEncryptFTP.Program.Main(String[] args)
The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
MyComputer

By: ranimi

ranimi — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:09:30 +0000

Thank you!!!!
Ranimi (Italy)

By: sudar

sudar — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:23:20 +0000

Thanks for the tool. I was looking for something like this for quite something. You rock! Thanks once again.

Cheers,
Sudar

By: gHacks tech news

gHacks tech news — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:44:47 +0000

Zip Encrypt Ftp Backups

Didier Stevens did it again with a pretty useful tool that could be used for backups that should be placed on another server on the internet. This is great if you want to separate site or operating system backups from the running server to avoid that b…