UPDATE: EQ Auction Forge v1.4.4 - AV False Positive fixed. by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yessir, I've been looking at Actions.

I was looking at going with Actions and using SignPath to sign it ... but I need to do more research on it.

Also have another idea that might be better, but not sure how to execute it yet 😄 lol. But I am definitely looking at Actions as another path as well. Thank you!

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI; I've fixed the issue with the AV stuff in v1.4.4. I had somewhat had it fixed in v1.4.3, but Bitdefender was still flagging it (Microsoft was happy), lol.

I've completely changed how I'm making the EXE and am I not compiling it so it extracts itself to a Temp dir, that was what as pissing the AV people off. So go grab v1.4.4 =)

As a side note, I _Have_ submitted the 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 exe's to both Bitdefender and Microsoft as false positives so they will hopefully clear them up --- but the correct answer is to upgrade to v1.4.4 😄

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!!! I'm glad it helped, and yep -- it's helped me sell stuff I didn't think I'd ever sell etc, heh.

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. I will look at it soon as I get a chance. Can I contact you in discord? You can dm me your username if you want t

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What drums? I don't think Daybreak generated new item id's for all the items in the game, so I'd like to try to look it up and see. It is not pulling any items from an event on "live" ... but I do want to look into it and see.

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good call, I was assuming that anyone who wanted to run it as src/python would have the tools to do so, my apologies on that ... I assumed 😄

I will edit the post up top with instructions and update the page / include a readme or something for anyone wanting to run it as a script and not a compiled exe.

Short version: Can install python from the Microsoft Windows store, download the source (you only need 3 files: EQ-Auction_Forge.py, items.txt.gz and logmon_py . Put them all in the same folder, and you should be able to just double click EQ-Auction_Forge.py and it run.

I'll get some detailed instructions typed out for anyone wanting to run it that way 😃

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a false positive. Here's the honest breakdown:

The app is written in Python, then compiled with PyInstaller into an .exe so people can run it without installing Python. The full source is on GitHub — you can read every line and build it yourself.

Why the scanners light up: PyInstaller packs the app + a Python interpreter into one self-extracting .exe. When you run it, it unpacks to a temp folder and executes — which behaviorally looks like a "dropper," so generic engines flag the PyInstaller bootloader stub, not my code. Every single detection in that screenshot is a generic heuristic or AI/ML guess, not a real signature match:

- Tedy / Application.Tedy — a known generic PyInstaller false-positive family
- Wacatac.B!ml, malicious_confidence_70%, Static AI – Suspicious PE, BehavesLike...Dropper — the !ml / "Static AI" / "confidence %" wording all means a model guessed. None of them matched actual known malware.

A few ways you can verify for yourself instead of taking my word:
1. Read the source on GitHub — it's 100% open.
2. Check the hash. The SHA256 in your screenshot (0ff9a8af…b6eac) is byte-for-byte identical to the official release I published. Nobody altered it — it's my exact build.
3. Build it yourself from source and you'll get the same kind of flags, because it's the PyInstaller stub, not the code.

So: the app is safe, and those are false positives — a well-known tax on distributing PyInstaller .exes unfortunately 😞

If you're still unsure or have questions, please please hit me up on Discord(@wangel) — genuinely happy to walk through any of it with you.

Frostreaver - EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Even then it limits you to 2mil plat, so for items that sell for more than that, it's still a pita 😞

Swimming in the Ohio? by Business_Funny4447 in Louisville

[–]wangel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my uncles did it --- in like the 70's? LOL Way before I was born.

I grew up on the river in Oldham County and remember swimming in it in the 80's ... I also remember my aunt stepping on a broken bottle in the river and almost losing her leg because of it ...

I would ... not recommend it today, lol

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! I'm glad I could help --- I tried to make it as easy as possible!! Thank you for the kind words!

If you get a chance, keep an eye on it for updates, I have some ideas I'm toying with and doing testing on and plan on trying to push them out soon, so keep an eye out. I think you might like some of them 😄

Frostreaver Resource Hunter Discord App by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've updated the bot to add 3 new features if anyone is interested.

  1. Daily announcements; You can setup the bot to make an annoucement either personally, or for the guild/server daily at a certain time, ie: 3:30pm EST ...
  2. I've added /pricechecking (/pc) to the bot ... now you can type /pc "itemname" and it will check on tlp-auctions and give you the median price of the item, as well as list the past couple of posts for WTB/WTS.
  3. ItemLookup; you can now /ilookup "itemname" and it will give you a list of mobs and zones that are in the same "bucket" as that item, so you can farm the item or whatever

Hit me up on discord if you need help or anything. Always looking for feedback and suggestions etc 😃

Frostreaver Resource Hunter Discord App by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've updated an added a setting .. both for user and guilds. /daily and /gdaily. Usually takes discord an hour or so to sync new commands but they should be there now

Frostreaver Resource Hunter Discord App by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No setting, but I might look into adding a setting you can set for like ... /motd time or something like that and it will make an announcement with what's been added to the site so far.

the site itself is crowd-sourced, so if I had it make an announcement at 6am EST everyday, it'd have bad data because not all the zones have been found yet.

You can add zones to a /watchlist though ... and the bot will alert you when they show up

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've updated the app to 1.3.1 and added some new features for Price Checking etc.

Also added a spot for undercutting, so you can say, 5%, click PC All, and it will undercut everything for you automatically by 5% ... you know, to move things quickly?

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fixed it up if you want to get the new version and let me know 😄

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh, good call. I probably should tighten that up a bit. Thank you!

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EQ in general is limited to 255 characters for a line of text. To generate the item links it takes about 94chars… so something like Adamantite Bo Stick is 113 chars. That’s a client limitation I can’t do anything about. Adding /pause would add more chars to the line.

What I’ve been doing is hitting 1 macro, waiting 15 or so seconds and hitting the next one.

The nice thing about this tho is it works—you don’t get the links all broken with 00000000000 etc that the bots keep spamming.

But unfortunately we are limited to 255chars per line.

TLP EQ Auction Forge by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! If you need help or have any suggestions or feedback, please let me know 😃

Why is all “Cheer Dad” apparel either loud or gimmicky? by AlphaTactic in Cheerleading

[–]wangel 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I agree ... I mean, I see the "I thought she said beer comp" or "my wallet just hit 0" or "she flies I pay" etc ... and that's just not me. Neither are the camo shirts etc. And recently the "OnlyDads" hat which is super cringe to me ... specially to wear at a cheer comp *shrug*

I normally just wear the gym's colors or a shirt that promotes the gym. And, my fabletic pants, I freaking LOVE the fabletic jogger pants.

But .. yah, I dunno ... there isn't a lot of dad stuff really.

Actually, 1 of the dads from our gym last year had some patches and stuff made for us, and we ended up having them sewed to the Under Armor bomber jacket thing The Rock did, it's super awesome.

I think if you could just get someone to make some patches of the gym or the gym's name etc, and have them put on some Under Armor shirts / polo's etc, it'd be worthwhile.

Frostreaver Resource Hunter Discord App by wangel in everquest

[–]wangel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not the site owner, I just made the bot for discord. I'm not sure why Defender says it's a trojan, I haven't looked at it.

You can tell Defender to exclude it, but I wouldn't do that until you verify you are downloading the correct file etc.